Mama Ngina Kenyatta
1933 – ? Kenyan First Lady of Kenya, businesswoman
Fourth wife of Jomo Kenyatta and mother of President Uhuru Kenyatta, a figure in the family's business empire.
- Affiliations
- Kenyatta family
Mama Ngina Kenyatta was the fourth wife of Jomo Kenyatta and became a central figure in the Kenyatta family's accumulation of land and business interests. She has been linked in accounts of the 1970s to the ivory trade that flourished under the Kenyatta government, a connection reported by contemporaries and later writers but disputed by the family. Her son Uhuru Kenyatta served as president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. She remains one of the wealthiest people in the country.
Connections
- family of Jomo Kenyatta — His fourth wife.
- family of Uhuru Kenyatta — Mama Ngina Kenyatta is Uhuru mother and a central figure in the Kenyatta family estate.
In the timeline
- 1961 Uhuru Kenyatta is born into the founding family mother
- 1970 The Kenyatta Family's Land Accumulation family member
- 1975 Mama Ngina Kenyatta and the Ivory Trade the figure linked to the trade in contested accounts
- 1979 Uhuru grows up in the St Marys Catholic elite pipeline mother and religious household context