Esther Passaris

I am an entrepreneur businesswoman in Nairobi, Kenya. I am the founder and chief executive officer of Adopt A Light Ltd, a private company engaged in the provision of outdoor advertising services in Kenya and which pioneered public private partnership arrangement in the development of lighting infrastructure in the City of Nairobi. I am also […]


Kathambi Kinoti

I live and work in Nairobi, Kenya. A lawyer by training, I have extensive experience in the field of women’s rights. I am a writer and researcher, passionate about women and Africa. For the past few years, I have worked as the Women’s Rights Information Coordinator of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), […]


Kikuyu Women in the ‘Thuku’ Revolt  

There has been considerable scholarly focus on the nature of women’s participation in nationalist struggles. The importance of this focus is to recognise women’s political agency and not relegate women to supporting roles in what tend to be understood as men’s political struggles. The colonial literature has presented two caricatures of African women’s involvement in […]


Wangari Muta Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai is known as the first central or eastern African to hold a Ph.D., the first woman head of a university department in Kenya, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for ‘her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.’ Maathai was elected as a member of […]