Pamela Mboya

Pamela Mboya (1938 – 26 January 2009) was a Kenyan political activist and diplomat, the wife of Tom Mboya the Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.

She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio.

[1] Pamela Odede married Thomas Mboya in 1962, in a large Roman Catholic wedding.

[3] Pamela Mboya was frequently photographed as a hostess with international visitors: during her marriage, she danced with Prince Philip to celebrate Kenya's independence in 1964; after she was widowed, she visited with Coretta Scott King and other survivors of loss by assassination.

After she was widowed, she had another son with her brother-in law, in accordance to Luo tradition, whom she named Tom Mboya, Jr. in his honour.