One of Kenya’s seven recently elected female Governors has revealed she dropped out of high school temporarily as a teenager to work as a domestic worker.
Kawira Mwangaza, who has just been sworn in as the new Governor of Meru county, said it happened when she was aged around 14 because her family was poor.
“I worked as a house help for almost a year. It was difficult but I knew deep down I was born a winner,” the politician, who is in her late forties.
