Are Mama Ngina and Muthoni Kirima cut from same Mau Mau cloth?

Mau Mau veteran Field Marshal Muthoni WA Kirima shaves her locks as Mama Ngina Kenyatta sits beside her. The veteran hads not shaved her hair since 1952.

Mama Ngina Kenyatta, widow of Kenya’s founding father Jomo Kenyatta, has over the years remained reclusive.

Unassuming but packing a massive political fist, she has always been matronly. Rarely does she publicly delve into politics. Perhaps that’s why she is unrecognisable to many Kenyans who grew up when Jomo Kenyatta was long gone.