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 - 09:00

In Summary

Born on November 29, 1936 in the current Busia county, she grew up “like any other girl child in the village” as the daughter of pioneer African missionaries.
Her journey to the highest of education was full of ups and downs, walking long distances in search of education.

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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