He also spent several years in India at the universities of Calcutta and New Delhi, studying economics.
[2] In 1966, Jowi was elected to represent the Ndhiwa Constituency in the Kenyan National Assembly.
[1] In 1969 Jowi briefly served as minister for economic planning and development in Kenya's cabinet after Tom Mboya, who had held the role, was assassinated.
[4] He lost reelection later that year,[3] and was appointed Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations.
In that role, Jowi was a key figure in getting the United Nations Environment Programme's headquarters to be placed in Nairobi in the early 1970s.