TOP 4 Influential Kenyan Women. Do You Agree With This List?

With the empowerment of women, many have decided to get out of their comfort zone and show their prowess in different sectors. That said, who are the most powerful women in Kenya?

Here is a list of Kenya’s most influential women.

1. Tabitha Karanja
Tabitha Karanja is the CEO of Keroche Breweries, the first beer factory to be owned by a Kenyan. She is a woman who ventured in a business that was considered a man’s field. She faced many challenges such as competition from multinationals, high taxation and meddling from high government officials but her resilience was stronger than the challenges.

She was quoted by The Standard saying, “Friends ran away when they heard we (my husband and I) were going into beer manufacturing. They actually thought we had gone bankrupt and the church thought we had become “the lost sheep”. But we had seen a gap in this market and we were determined to fill it.”

Even with all that she is a woman who has managed to achieve so much as an entrepreneur by brazing on the challenges on her way.

2. Martha Karua
Commonly referred to as the Iron Lady, Martha Karua is a respected politician. She is an advocate of the high court of Kenya and she studied law at the University of Nairobi. She has worked as a magistrate from 1981 to 1987 and later moved into private practice to work as an advocate.

She studied law at the University of Nairobi and was later enrolled at the Kenya School of Law for the statutory post graduate law course.

She immensely contributed to the development of family law and especially the distribution of matrimonial property as well as constitutional and administrative law.

She has also been immensely involved in championing woman’s rights through public interest litigation, lobbying and advocacy for laws that enhance and protect women’s rights through her work with various women’s organizations particularly FIDA.

Why they refer to her as the iron lady is because she is fearless when it comes to airing her opinions without fear.

3. Caroline Mutoko

She recently left Kiss 100 FM program “The Big Breakfast” to take up a more senior role at the station. In her more than 10 year career Caroline was known to address real everyday issues in a no nonsense manner. This always rubbed politicians and prominent people the wrong way.

She attended Loreto Convent Valley Road High School.

The queen of radio as she is commonly referred to started off her career at Capital FM without pay for 6 months!

4. Njoki Ndungu
Born in 1965, the Honourable Justice Njoki Susanna Ndungu is a judge at the Supreme Court of Kenya is one of the successful lawyers in Kenya.

The alumnus of Kenya High School holds a Bachelors of Law from the University of Nairobi and a Masters of law in Human Rights and civil Liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

She has work experience in the office of the Attorney General, Institute for Education in Democracy and the United Nations High Commission for refugees. She is the architect of the sexual offences act 2006, and of amendments of the employment act 2007 providing for paid maternity and paternity leave.

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