Death Anniversary: Remembering Mama Lucy Kibaki

I never bothered to study the history of Kenya’s second First Lady until I sat down to do this story. An interesting fact I soon found out is that we share the same birth month and day. This iron lady was born Lucy Muthoni Kagai on January 13 in 1936 in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County.

She was born of Rose Nyachomba and father John Kagai who was a pastor of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in Nyeri’s Muhito Parish. Ostensibly a bright student, Mama Lucy studied at Alliance Girls High School from where she would embark to a teaching career.