Kirinyaga County, is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya. A scared focal point for the Agikuyu people the mountain was known as Kirinyaga and the name change happened when the word was lost in translation.
When from a far off, the first Europeans saw the snowy peaks straddling the Equator, the mountain was introduced to them as KayEnyA, by the Akamba. They pronounced it differently from the Agikuyu, to whom it is home. Fast Forward to British Colonial Rule and standing at 3,835m high, the easily identifiable landmark, gave rise to the name of the land now known as Kenya.
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Dr Joan Nyanuyki is an alumni of Moi University Eldoret, Kenya, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Medicine and Surgery. She also has a Masters in Human Rights, from the London School of Economics, where, she says, she was privileged to attend as a Chevening Scholar courtesy of the British Government. Joan is currently based in Addis Ababa, where she’s the Executive Director of African Child Policy Forum, an independent, non-profit organisation.
At the African Child Policy Forum, the focus is on building a Pan-African approach to promoting child well-being based on African identity, philosophies and realities, anchored on the African Charter for Children. The vision at ACPF is to support African governments and to hold them accountable to children’s rights.
In all this, Dr Joan Nyanyuki is unaffected and approachable, and the proof of it is that she is sitting here with me today.
Twendeni. Africa is ready!
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