Nyiva mwendwa biography of mahatma
Kibaki cabinet 2008.
Nyiva Mwendwa
Kenyan politician
Winfred Nyiva Mwendwa is a Kenyan politician.
Nyiva mwendwa biography of mahatma
She was the first Kenyan woman to serve as a cabinet minister.
Early life and education
She was educated at Alliance Girls High School,[1] and was one of the first ethnic African teachers to be posted to The Kenya High School in the mid-1960s, teaching Domestic Science.
She was elected for the post of Kitui West Constituency MP three times, in 1974 and 1992 representing KANU and in 2002 representing NARC.[2] At the 2007 elections she contested the seat on the ODM-Kenya ticket, but lost to Charles Mutisya Nyamai.[3] She was elected the first Kitui County woman representative in the 2013 Kitui local elections on a Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K) ticket.[4] In 2016, she announced her intention to retire from active politics 40 years since her debut.[5]
Political life
Mwendwa was appointed the Minister for Culture and Social Services on M