Introducing Pamela Mboya: Late wife to the legendary Tom Mboya

Mrs. Pamela Mboya [R] in April 1969

• Tom Mboya was a vibrant politician from Nyanza.  He was gunned down in 1969.
• He was the husband to Mrs.Pamela Mboya a very successful woman. However, little is known about Pamela.

Imagine getting married in a beautiful wedding to the love of your life, living with a husband who was always in the spotlight and then after just seven years of marriage, just as the two of you are getting the hang of marriage life, his life is snubbed. Well that is the story of Pamela Arwa Mboya.

Pamela Arwa Odede was born in 1938 in Maseno Kisumu County. Her father Walter Odede was a local politician who instilled in his daughter the importance of having a good education. Pamela studied at two of the most prestigious Universities in the world that time, Makerere University in Uganda and Oxford University in the United States.