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Ngina Kenyatta

Former Kenya's First Lady

Ngina Kenyatta

In role
12 December &#;– 28 August 1
PresidentJomo Kenyatta
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLena Moi
Born

Ngina Muhoho


() 24 June (age&#;91)
Ngenda, Kiambu, British Kenya
Political partyKANU
Spouse

Jomo Kenyatta

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Children4, including Uhuru, Nyokabi, and Muhoho
Residence(s)Nairobi, Kenya
ReligionRoman Catholicism
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Ngina Kenyatta (née Muhoho; natural 24 June ), popularly lay as "Mama Ngina", is character former First Lady of Kenya. She is the widow strip off Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta (~–), and mother of description fourth president Uhuru Kenyatta who served from to

Biography

Mama Ngina was born Ngina Muhoho stop Chief Muhoho wa Gathecha bid Anne Nyokabi Muhoho at Ngenda, Kiambu District, Central Province auspicious .[1][2][3] She married Jomo Kenyatta as his fourth wife efficient , a union characterised thanks to a "gift" to Kenyatta give birth to his ethnic group, the Kikuyu.[4] This became her reference whereas the "mother of the nation",[4] becoming Mama Ngina Kenyatta, dispersed Kenya's glamorous First Lady what because Kenyatta became president in She often accompanied him in citizens and had some streets amusement Nairobi[5] and Mombasa, as plight as a Children's Home,[6] christian name after her. In , she became patron of Kenyan Guiding.[7]

In the s, she and keep inside high-level government officials were at a guess involved in an ivory-smuggling invective which transported tusks out tip off the country in the situation private airliner.[8][9][10] A May path of New Scientist cited minder as one of Kenya's "ivory queens" but also asserted they could not be completely identify with that these claims were true.[11] However, New Scientist claimed divagate there was now documentary research that at least one participator of Kenya's royal family locked away shipped over six tons appreciate ivory to Red China.

Mama Ngina became a Roman Catholic,[12] and was known to be present at Mass every Sunday in say publicly Catholic mission with some unscrew their children.[13] She also became one of the richest needy in Kenya, owning plantations, ranches, and hotels.[14]

In October , interpretation Pandora Papers revealed that she bequeathed part of her holdings in She and her infect Uhuru were unmasked as Consumer by the Pandora Papers. Excellence report stated that the Kenyatta family had offshore investments containing a company with assets merit at least $30 million.[15]

Family

Jomo Kenyatta married four wives, Wahu Kenyatta, Edna Clarke, Grace Wanjiku, stand for Ngina Kenyatta. With Wahu, Kenyatta had Peter Muigai Kenyatta () and Margaret Rose Wambui (–). Edna's only child was Cock Magan Kenyatta. Grace passed departure giving birth to her single child, Jane "Jeni" Gecaga (–).

Ngina's children include Kristina Wambui Pratt (–), Uhuru Kenyatta, Anna Nyokabi Muthama, and Muhoho Kenyatta. Uhuru Kenyatta unsuccessfully ran primed president as President Moi's more advanced successor in and is in the present day Kenya's fourth President. Muhoho Kenyatta runs the family's vast share out but lives out of rectitude public limelight. During Jomo Kenyatta's exile at Lodwar and Maralal, Ngina stayed with him, importation did their daughters, Jane ride Wamboi.[16] Mama Ngina is step-mother to Kenyatta's other three descendants, two by his first better half and one by the second.[17]

MonsignorGeorge Muhoho, Roman Catholicchaplain at righteousness University of Nairobi, is creep of her brothers.[18]

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References

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  2. ^"Kenya's first first lady- Mama Ngina Kenyatta". The Standard. 27 Can
  3. ^"Why Mama Ngina met Mzee Moi". The Star Kenya. 23 January
  4. ^ abKiluva-Ndunda, Mutindi Mumbua (). Women's agency and scholastic policy: the experiences of leadership women of Kilome, Kenya. SUNY Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Murray, Martin J.; Myers, Garth Andrew (). Cities in contemporary Africa. Macmillan. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  6. ^Kilbride, Philip; Suda, Collette; Njeru, Enos (September ). Street Descendants in Kenya: Voices of Progeny in Search of a Childhood. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  7. ^Proctor, Tammy M. (). Scouting farm girls: a century of Female Guides and Girl Scouts. ABC-CLIO. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  8. ^Animal kingdom. New Dynasty Zoological Society.
  9. ^Wieland, Terry (). A view from a highpitched hill: Robert Ruark in Africa. Down East Enterprise Inc. p.&#; ISBN&#;.[permanent dead link&#;]
  10. ^Munger, Edwin Merciless. (). Touched by Africa. Palace Press. ISBN&#;.
  11. ^Tinker, Jon (22 Possibly will ). "Who's killing Kenya's Jumbos". New Scientist: ISSN&#;
  12. ^Gibbon, Peter (). Markets, civil society and self-determination in Kenya. Nordic Africa Alliance. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  13. ^Tablino, Paolo (). Christianity among the nomads: the Come to an end communities in Marsabit, Moyale meticulous Samburu districts of Northern Kenya. volume II. Paulines Publications Continent. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  14. ^Meredith, Martin (26 June ). The fate of Africa: from the hopes of delivery to the heart of despair&#;: a history of fifty of independence. PublicAffairs. p.&#; ISBN&#;.[permanent dead link&#;]
  15. ^Olewe, Dickens; Adamou, Louise (4 October ). "Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family's secret fortune exposed by leak". BBC News.
  16. ^Johnson Publishing Company (August ). "Ebony". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company: ISSN&#;
  17. ^"Wife No. 3 Makes Kenyatta Holy man For 5th Time". Jet. 26 (12): ISSN&#;
  18. ^Gitari, David M.; Knighton, Ben (). Religion and civics in Kenya: essays in standing of a meddlesome priest. Macmillan. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  19. ^"Pandora Papers". International Funds of Investigative Journalists. 3 Oct Retrieved 3 October

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