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The Immortals:Why the Aworis are the Kennedys of Kenya

The Aworis
Young Moody Awori and sister Dr Mary Okello Photo: Courtesy

They dominate politics, education, commerce, medicine, engineering, sports and academia. Over 15 children followed in the footsteps of their father: Jeremiah Musungu Awori - the multifaceted ecclesiastical patriarch and pioneering African Canon of the Anglican Church in Kenya.

Canon Awori Street in Kakamega is named in after the man who planted over 100 churches in Western Kenya, before succumbing to heart attack at the age of 76 in 1971. Diabetes had plucked his wife Mariamu from this life seven years earlier.

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