Wavinya Ndeti: Living up to a big family name

She might have been a computer scientist and a farmer, but her parents had seen in her something that she hadn’t, and prevailed upon her to join politics by vying for the Kathiani constituency seat [Courtesy]

Muindi Mbingu is Wavinya Ndeti’s great grandfather. By blood, and, as I quickly learn from my conversation with her, also by character.

Bold, brash and passionate, Muindi Mbingu was the face of the Akamba freedom struggle when the community’s lands were taken from them, and they were forced to live in native reserves in 1937.