Muthoni Likimani Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (born 1926) is a Kenyan activist and writer, who has published works of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as children’s books. In one of those stories we love to hear that proves women can do and have it all, she was also the first Kenyan beauty queen, the first African to establish a public relations firm in Kenya and one of the country’s earliest female authors. Born and raised in Murang’a District, the daughter of Mariuma Wanjiura and Rev. Levi GochanJa, she taught at Kahuhia Teachers’ Training College, before undertaking further studies in Britain and Israel, becoming involved in broadcasting and public relations. She went on to become one of the first women producers at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, working on women’s and children’s programs and was a freelance broadcaster for the BBC. She founded Noni’s Publicity, a public relations company that also published the periodical Women of Catherine Kenya. Kasavuli Her first novel They Shall Be Chastised (1974) was followed by What Does a Man Want? in the same year. In Catherine Kasavuli was the first female news anchor job. Catherine was part of the founding team that saw 1985 her third and most important book appeared, Passbook Number F. 47927: Women and Mau Mau in in the country and has previously worked in other the first privately owned station go on air in March 1990 Kenya, its title a reference to her identity number during the Mau Mau struggle, is a fictional work that leading television stations including Kenya and was the first anchor to host a live broadcast at the dramatizes the roles women played and the strategies they adopted in their daily lives during the fight for Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and Kenya station. freedom. Not one to give up the good fight, in 2007, she received the World YWCA Council Award in Television Network (KTN). Her journey in the media recognition of dedicated leadership for her involvement as a Women’s Rights Activist and In 2014 she was began in 1980 as a radio continuity announcer when After being at KTN for 17 years, Kasavuli left the appointed Peace Ambassador in Kenya of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace an uncle who listened to her reading the Bible and station in 2007 to join Citizen TV, owned by Royal Media (IFLAC) praying for dinner told her to go for it. She decided Services. She was part of the mass exodus that saw to try out for “Voice of Kenya”, a then-popular radio several high-profile news anchors such as Swaleh Mdoe “Control your destiny or show at 18 years old. After she got the vacancy, she and Louie Otieno leave the Standard Group owned TV was thrown into the deep end with no professional Station for Citizen TV. She would later hold the position training, though she later went to Kenya Institute of corporate affairs manager at Royal Media Services, somebody else will.” of Mass Communication, about two years into her the parent company of Citizen TV. Muthoni Likimani 50nd3k4 372 50nd3k4 373 50nd3k4 372 50nd3k4 373