How Julia Ojiambo set the political pace for women

The professor was Kenya’s first female assistant minister.

by NANCY WAINAINA

Big-read12 March 2025 - 06:00

Prof Ojiambo at a past function /FILE

When Prof Julia Ojiambo first boarded the train as a young girl, heading off to school with nothing but determination and dreams, she never imagined that decades later, she would be in the heart of Kenya’s turbulent political arena.

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