The Purity Wangechi we knew, KIMC students remember teen killed in Kiambu

Students of KIMC hold a memorial ceremony of the late Purity Wangechi at the institute’s main campus in South B, Nairobi on May 19, 2022. [Esther Jeruto, Standard]

Purity Wangechi was hoping she’d one day be a journalist of repute in Kenya, or even beyond, but that dream was cut short eight months after she joined the KIMC to study journalism.

In October 2021, when she was 18 years old, Wangechi enrolled as a First-Year Diploma in Journalism student at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication in Nairobi.