17/04/2023
Jomo Kenyatta had four wives.
The first was Grace Wahu whom he married around 1919. She had two children with Jomo Kenyatta: Peter Muigai Kenyatta (1922–1979) and Margaret Wambui (1929–2017). Grace Wahu died in April 2007 at the age of 110, or thereabouts.
Kenyatta married his second wife, Edna Clarke, an English governess, in 1942, during his time in England. Together they have one child, a son, Peter Magana Kenyatta, who was once a presenter at the BBC, and lives in London. Edna died in 1985, aged 86. Not much is known about Magana.
Kenyatta's third wife, Grace Wanjiku, was the daughter of Senior Chief Koinange wa Mbiyu of Kiambu District; and sister to Peter Mbiyu Koinange, the powerful Minister of State in the Office of the President during Kenyatta's time. It is reported that Wanjiku died while giving birth to her only child, Jane Wambui Gecaga, in 1950.
Baroness Ngina Muhoho is Jomo Kenyatta's fourth wife. She was born in 1933 and got married to Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in 1951 (at exactly 18 years). Official records put Jomo Kenyatta's year of birth at 1897 - meaning he married Ngina Muhoho when he was 54.
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