Jemimah Gecaga (1920–1979) was the first woman to serve in the legislature of Kenya and the founder of the women's advocacy organization, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake.
[1] Her parents, Leah Magana and George Segeni Njoroge, were Christian converts who attended the Church of the Torch which had been founded by the famous Church of Scotland minister, John William Arthur.
[2][3] Her father worked as a cook at a Presbyterian mission in Nairobi and later opened a store.
[1] She has five brothers and one sister[1] including Kenyan Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament Njoroge Mungai (1926–2014) and Kenyan diplomat Ngethe Njoroge[1] (formerly married to American activist Mary Morello and father of American guitarist Tom Morello).
[5] In 1969, she was again nominated as a member of parliament; she served until 1974 when was replaced by her brother Njoroge Mungai.