Transport
Irene Koki Mutungi - first female on the African continent to become certified as a Captain of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Elizabeth Marami - at 28, became first female marine pilot.
Captain Joyce Beckwith - First woman Hot Air Balloon pilot.
Medicine
Florence Ng endo Mwangi - Kenya s first woman medical doctor.
Dr Muthoni Gitata - First female dentist and oral surgeon
Sports
Liz Mills - First female head coach for the men s national basketball team.
Orie Rogo Manduli - first black African woman in Kenya to compete in the world circuit Safari Rally in 1974. She also was the first woman to head the Kenya Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) council.
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Kenya s First Woman to Own & Drive a Car
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The general adage since the years of yore holds that women must always fight twice as hard as men to make a mark in the world.
Truth is that women have left lasting footprints on the social and economic fabric of our human existence, footprints that have remained visible for many years. Women have many enviable firsts.
In Kenya for instance, the first African woman to own and drive a car, as told by author Mike Eldon, was his mother-in-law, Marjorie Kimenyi.
Kimenyi descended from a long line of high achievers and according to a book,