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Charity Ngilu:Kenya's first female presidential candidate

Charity Ngilu [L] shares a light moment with Phoebe Asiyo [R] during a garden party. APRIL 1997

Her story is one of adversity and optimism - a  story of a woman from a rural village in Kitui who made it to Parliament and then the presidential race.

Charity Kaluki Ngilu in 1997, ventured above the political parapet to scratch at the highest and hardest of glass ceilings by becoming Kenya’s first female presidential candidate.

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