Esther Kamweru, OGW, is a pioneering Kenyan journalist recognised by the Kenya Editors Guild for becoming Kenya’s first woman Managing Editor of a national newspaper, the Standard, and the first Executive Director of the Media Council of Kenya. Her memoir Madam Editor brings family, career, and faith into the same frame: the public achievements and the private life that sustained them.
Recognition earned across a pioneering career. Kenya Yearbook records her OGW award in 2014 and a journalism Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Read the recordA book out in the world: Esther, in yellow, at a presentation of Madam Editor. Photograph supplied by Ssali.
