The lasting trail of the Kibakis

Mwai Kibaki with Lucy. Two of their four children Judy and Jimmy

Githinji Kibaki and Teresia Wanjiku, both peasant farmers in Gatuyaini village in Nyeri County, had no heartburn about their last born of eight children going to school in the 1930s, when tending livestock was more profitable pastime. That path later gifted Kenya its third president.

Mwai Kibaki: The now 84-year-old has an appetite for milk and meat, which were luxuries at Nyeri High School where he reported to in 1947, sleeping on hay mattress and timber board, but still scored six straight A’s when he went to Mang’u High School.