N.W. MARTIN
Explore the extraordinary life of Mama Ngina Kenyatta, widow of Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta and mother of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Born in 1933 in Ngenda, Kiambu, she grew from a child of rural colonial Kenya into the woman who would stand beside Kenya’s first president and become the country’s first First Lady.Spanning nearly a century of Kenyan history, this biography follows Mama Ngina from her childhood in Ngenda and her marriage to Jomo Kenyatta, through the years of the Mau Mau Emergency, the birth of independent Kenya in 1963, and her years at State House in Nairobi after Kenya became a republic in 1964.Inside this biography you will discover:Early years in Ngenda, Kiambu, and the traditional and colonial world that shaped her childhoodMarriage to Jomo Kenyatta in 1951 and life during Kenya’s struggle for independenceYears during the Emergency, including the family’s hardships during the 1950sLife as Kenya’s first First Lady from 1964, helping define a role that had no established traditionPublic and private life in Nairobi, Gatundu, and Mombasa, including growing involvement in business, women’s organizations, education, and community causesLife as the wife of a president and mother of a future president, as the Kenyatta family moved from the independence era into the next generationPerfect for readers interested in:Kenyan history and the independence movementWomen, politics, and powerAfrican political biographiesThe Kenyatta family and Kenya’s first decades of independenceRemarkable women whose lives shaped historyStep into the extraordinary life of Mama Ngina Kenyatta, a remarkable woman whose life spanned nearly a century of Kenya’s history and whose legacy continues to shape the nation.
