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Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
July 2025

Recently completed:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: K & L
New this month:	Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Alphabet run: O & P Indigenous women Film and stage Ideas

Welcome!

This month, Women in Red is focusing on its tenth anniversary and on Kenya. We chose Kenya because it will be the location of this year's Wikimania. It's not our first editathon regarding Kenya. We did one some years back when Women in Red held a 24 hour editathon. Part of the editathon was hosted in Nairobi by Carol Mwaura and she is one of the co-authors of a paper that will be presented at m:WikiWomen* SummitWikiWomenSummit, a Wikimania Day 0 pre-conference.

By all means, donate an improved article or two but the challenge is "Ten for Kenya": a new article for every year of Women in Red.

Below is a collection of a number of redlists that include lots of Kenyan women to write about. Feel free to have a look at these if you want to know where to get started. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about these notable women. By doing so, we think you will find some interesting insights into life in Kenya and its rich history. An updated/improved article is a very welcome contribution ... one or two might manage "Ten for Kenya!"

As of 23 June 2025, according to Humaniki, there were 1,052 biographies of Kenyan women on English Wikipedia, in contrast to 2,309 of men and 8 for gender diverse Kenyans. This means that 31.226% of Kenyan biographies are about women. Let's make this proportion higher!

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women

to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works

• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index, but the obvious one is the list of Kenyan women in red and there are lots. Remember that this country had a long history before it became a British colony and there were missionaries from many countries.

There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WD) Dictionary of African Biography (WD)

Other missing Kenyan women:

• Alesandra Ogeta: Transgender rights activist and Director of Programs for Jinsiangu, a Kenyan organization supporting intersex, transgender, and gender non-conforming people. ([1] [2])
• Arya Jeipea Karijo: Women's rights and transgender rights activist ([3])
• Angela Wamai: Kenyan filmmaker.
• Susan Kinyua: Kenyan economist, winner of the 2024 Harambee Prize for the Advancement and Equality of African Women for her work in empowering African women.
• Naomi Kipuri, Kenyan educator, development consultant ([4])
• Lucy Mulekei, Kenyan community leader, co-founder of African Indigenous Women’s Organization ([5])

Participants

• Victuallers (talk) 17:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 09:47, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 13:05, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 01:33, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 00:26, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
• Nayyn (talk) 23:26, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 17:28, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 10:50, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
• Scanlan (talk) 01:52, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Dorice Donya Aburi
2. Faith Gitau
3. Catherine Wambilianga
4. Umul Ker Kassim
5. Fatuma Masito (also 341)
6. Alicen Chelaite
7. Ruth Wangari Mwaniki (also 341)
8. Lena Moi (also 341)
9. Josephine Wairimu Kagunda (also 327)
10. Immaculate Wambua (also 327)
11. Esther Mwikali (also 327)
12. Njeri Rionge (also 327)
13. Betty Chebet Cherwon (also 327)
14. Fena Gitu (also 327)
15. Brenda Wambui (also 327)
16. Ijeoma Onyeator (also 327)
17. Mercy Wanjiru Gitahi (also 327)
18. Pauline Njeri Kahenya (also 327)
19. Precious Blood Secondary School (Riruta) upgrade
20. Rasna Warah
21. Priscilla Abwao
22. Ng'endo Mwangi, destub,
23. Joyce Rugg Gunn
24. Madina Okot
25. Evelyn Napier Molony
26. Fatuma Achani
27. Jerusha Mongina Momanyi
28. Wangari wa Nyatetu-Waigwa
29. Kavetsa Adagala
30. Jepchumba
31. Jane Ndenga
32. Mary Emaase
33. Linda Donley-Reid
34. Ashley Tshanda Ongong'a
35. Chanelle Wangari
36. Soni Methu
37. Rose Naliaka
38. Naom Wafula
39. Angela Wamai
40. Zena Marshall destub,
41. Daphne Dale destub
42. Susan Kinyua
43. Agnes Pareyio update
44. Phylis Jepkemoi upgrade
45. Martha Wangari Wanjira
46. Jessica Nduku Kiko Mbalu
47. Suzanne Ndunge Kiamba
48. Eunice Sahle
49. Luna Kamau (also 340)
50. Judy Omumbo
51. Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a
52. Arya Jeipea Karijo
53. Jennifer Shamalla
54. Lilian Gogo (also 340)
55. Rozaah Akinyi Buyu
56. Grace Onyango add pic

List of "Ten for Kenya"

please write your username and articles below

• Victuallers' 10 for Kenya = 1 Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a 2 Amina Laura Mnyazi 3 Mary Maingi 4 Susan Kinyua 5 Angela Wamai 6 Mary Emaase 7 Jerusha Mongina Momanyi 8 Fatuma Achani 9 Precious Blood Secondary School (Riruta) 10 Cecily Mutitu Mbarire
• Nayyn's 10 for Kenya = 1 Naom Wafula 2 Rose Naliaka 3 Chanelle Wangari 4 Ashley Tshanda Ongong'a 5 Jane Ndenga 6 Madina Okot 7 8 9 10
• Penny Richards' 10 for Kenya = 1 Soni Methu, 2 Kavetsa Adagala, 3 Wangari wa Nyatetu-Waigwa, 4 Linda Donley-Reid, 5 Daphne Dale (destub), 6 Zena Marshall (destub) 7 Evelyn Napier Molony 8 Joyce Rugg Gunn 9 Ng'endo Mwangi (destub) 10 Priscilla Abwao
• SDGB1217's 10 for Kenya = 1 Pauline Njeri Kahenya, 2 Mercy Wanjiru Gitahi, 3 Ijeoma Onyeator, 4 Brenda Wambui, 5 Fena Gitu, 6 Betty Chebet Cherwon, 7 Njeri Rionge, 8 Esther Mwikali, 9 Immaculate Wambua, 10 Josephine Wairimu Kagunda

Outcomes (media)

• Please add the special category Ten for Kenya 2025 to the image if you're uploading a Kenyan image to Commons, it will then be part of Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025. NOTE: That images only have to be 50 years old to escape Kenya's copyright laws (unless they are artistic) (see the template "PD-Kenya"). You will need a US copyright rationale.

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  Yvonne Khamati

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Event resources

• Please add Category:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025 to any media you upload to Commons.
• Invitation: WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WikiProject Women in Red - {{WIR|343}}