Listen Fatumah Ahmed is the first major-general in Kenya Defence Forces following her appointment by President Uhuru Kenyatta on July 13, 2018. She is also Kenya’s first female Brigadier of the Kenya Defence Forces. She was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier on 11 August 2015 by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Kenya. In […]
Listen Mary Mukami Mwangangi will be remembered as Kenya’s first female traffic chief. Her life of faith, courage and commitment is testimony that the difficulties and complexities of life can be conquered. Described as a pillar of strength by her children, a selfless and devoted wife, parent, daughter, sister and friend, Mwangangi’s story of triumph […]
Listen Rosalid Wairimu is the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a diver, and is the officer in charge of Team Three, part of the Kenya Navy Diving Unit. Born among five brothers in Karatina, Nyeri County, in October 1979, Lieutenant Rosalid Wairimu is used to playing in a male-dominated field. She […]
Listen Captain Grace Ajierh is a lawyer who won a medal for drafting and implementing the Kenya Defence Forces Act, which superseded the Armed Forces Act, in the Constitution of Kenya in 2013. Military training might be tough, but Captain Grace Ajierh would not have it any other way. The lawyer considers herself even tougher […]
Listen Raychelle Omamo is the first Kenyan woman to hold the top job in the Defence ministry. She was also the first woman to chair the Law Society of Kenya. She has been a career diplomat having served in France, Portugal, The Holy See and the Republic of Serbia. The nomination of Raychelle Awuor Omamo […]
Listen Sophie Mukwana is the founder and director of the first private forensic lab in East Africa — Biotech Forensics Ltd. The company’s clients are drawn from Kenya and regionally from Djibouti, Rwanda, Burundi and as far as Côte d’Ivoire. Her firm primarily conducts DNA analysis on plant, animal and human samples to create data […]
Listen Emma Mbua was the first Kenyan female paleoanthropologist . She was also the first woman to head the National Museum of Kenya’s Paleoanthropology Section, Department of Earth Sciences (Human Evolution and Paleoenvironments) where she also worked as Principal Research Scientist. After 35 years of service, Mbua left the position but continues to serve as […]
Listen Florence Wambugu is a Plant Pathologist known for championing the importance of biotechnology in securing a future devoid of starvation and poverty for Africa. She is the Founder Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI) known as Africa Harvest, which aims to improve food security and the welfare […]
Listen As a pioneer researcher in indigenous African vegetables, Mary Abukutsa Onyango has changed the position of these vegetables from a poor man’s crop to a highly sought after food that can be found in supermarkets today. Onyango, who grew up vegetarian as a result of allergies to animal protein, was motivated to choose agriculture […]
Listen Sophie Githinji is an author and a post-doctoral researcher in malaria management at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. She recently completed a project involving the use of mobile phone text messages to report stocks of anti-malarial commodities and malaria surveillance data. She is currently involved in a trial using text messages to remind caregivers to […]