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Hilary Boniface Ng'weno (1938-2021) was a Kenyan historian and journalist. The Harvard-educated scientist was born in Nairobi in 1938, to the late Regina and Morris Onyango. . After graduating from Harvard with a degree in nuclear physics, Ng'weno worked as a reporter for the Daily Nation for nine months before his appointment as the newspaper’s first Kenyan editor-in-chi
Nation Center, headquarters of the Nation Media Group who publish the Daily Nation. The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960.
Jimi Richard Wanjigi (born in 1962) is a Kenyan businessman and political strategist. He is the chief executive officer of Kwacha Group of Companies, a privately held family office with interests in various sectors of the Kenyan economy including agri-business, financial services, industrials and real estate. He is however best known for being ...
Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley ( / ˈtʃʌmli / CHUM-lee; [1] 19 June 1968 – 17 August 2016) [2] was a Kenyan farmer. He was the great-grandson of the 3rd Baron Delamere, one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya, [3] and was heir to the Delamere title at the time of his death, being the eldest son of the 5th Baron ...
Larry Madowo (born 14 July 1987) is a CNN International Correspondent and host of the African Voices Changemakers and Playmakers series. He was previously a North America Correspondent for the BBC and also anchored breaking news and presented BBC World News America from Washington, DC. He was a 2019-20 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and ...
Sarah Onyango Obama (1922 – March 29, 2021) was a Kenyan educator and philanthropist. She was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandmother of U.S. president Barack Obama [1] and helped raise his father, Barack Obama Sr. [2] [3] She was known by her short name as Sarah Obama and was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel ...
Peter Kagwanja (born August 8, 1963, in Murang’a County, Central Kenya) is a Kenyan intellectual, adviser, reform strategist and policy thinker on governance, security and African affairs. From the early 1990s, Kagwanja was associated with Kenya's pro-democracy movement through his research and writings in the media, and was one of the ...
He wrote a weekly column called "Father Kizito's Notebook" from 1995 to 2001, in the Sunday edition of the Daily Nation, which is Kenya’s most widely read newspaper. In 1999, the Episcopal Conference of Kenya instructed him to plan and set up Waumini Radio, a national Catholic FM station. The station began broadcasting in July 2003, and ...