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Susan Wakhungu-Githuku

April 18, 2024

Susan Wakhungu-Githuku (born 1960) is a Kenyan business executive, writer, and publishing house founder, who in her youth was ranked as Kenya's top women's tennis player. She was born in Bungoma in British Kenya and around the age of 11 moved to Nairobi. While attending Loreto Convent Valley Road High School, she began to play tennis. In 1978, she qualified to play in the Junior girls' singles at the Wimbledon Championships. According to the sports journalist Ross McLean, she was the first Kenyan to play in a Junior Grand Slam tournament and until 2022 was the only Kenyan to have qualified for and played in a Junior Grand Slam event at Wimbledon.[1] At the 1978 All-Africa Games she won the gold medal in women's doubles and the silver medal for the women's singles. While studying at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, she played in the college circuit. After winning a women's singles title at the World University Games in Mexico City in 1979, she became Kenya's top women's player. She was the 1983 women's champion at the Robbialac Classic Tournament and won the tournament's women's doubles title with her sister Judi Wakhungu the following year. In 1984, she was the winner of the women's matches at the Kenya Closed Championships and in 1987 won the bronze medal in ladies' doubles at the All-Africa Games, before retiring from tennis.

Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
Born
Susan Nakhanu Wakhungu

1960 (age 63–64)
Bungoma, British Kenya
Other namesSusan Nakhanu Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan Wakhungu
Occupation(s)Tennis player, business executive, writer
Years active1978–present
RelativesJudi Wakhungu (sister)
Anne Shongwe (sister-in-law)
Moody Awori (uncle)
Aggrey Awori (uncle)

Wakhungu-Githuku began her professional career working for the Kenyan government as an economist. She then spent a decade working for various non-governmental agencies including the United States Agency for International Development, the Africa Economic Research Consortium, and Care International as a programme director. During this time, she returned to her studies, obtaining a master's degree in research and development planning from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. At the beginning of the 21st century, she began working at The Coca-Cola Company as human resources director for the Africa Division in London. She later transferred to Johannesburg, South Africa, and was responsible for learning and development for 90 countries. Thereafter she served as the director of Coca-Cola University for Africa and Eurasia, but left the company in 2009 to found Human Performance Dynamics in Nairobi, a business and human resources consultancy. Aspiring to write about successful contemporary Kenyans, but unable to find a publisher for her works, she founded the publishing house Footprints Press in 2010. She has published books on Kenya's development since independence and about notable Kenyan writers, photographers and runners, both men and women. In 2021, she was honoured by the government of Kenya, as a Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear.

Early life, sports, education, and family edit

Susan Nakhanu Wakhungu was born in 1960,[2][3] in Bungoma, British Kenya,[4] to Grace (née Awori) and Mathew Sarapayi Wakhungu.[5][6] Her mother was a teacher and later a businesswoman, who was the sister to Moody Awori, the ninth Deputy President of Kenya,[7] and Aggrey Awori, a former Olympic hurdler and a Member of Parliament in Uganda.[5] Her father was a medic Bungoma.[6][7] Wakhungu was one of five siblings, including her sister Judi,[7] and brother Ben.[5] She lived briefly at Siriba Teacher's Training College in Maseno, while her parents were abroad and then when she was eleven, moved with her family to Nairobi. She also lived briefly in Kampala, Uganda, and frequently spent time in London, where her father later lived. She attended Loreto Convent Valley Road High School and while there began to play tennis.[8] In 1978, she qualified for the Wimbledon Championships in the Junior girls' singles. Although she lost her match,[9] she was the first Kenyan to play in a Junior Grand Slam tournament. According to Ross McLean, a writer for the International Tennis Federation, she was the only Kenyan to qualify and play in a Junior Grand Slam event at Wimbledon until Angella Okutoyi played in 2022.[1] Many Kenyan newspapers state that she was the first Black African woman to have played in the Junior Wimbledon championships.[7][8][10] She competed in the 1978 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, where she met Tony Githuku, a fellow-Kenyan athlete who competed in swimming and rugby.[11] Wakhungu won the silver medal in the women's singles and along with Jane Davies Doxzon won the gold medal in women's doubles.[12][13][14]

Wakhungu attended university at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.[15] While she was studying for her degree in economics and psychology, she wrote articles about tennis for the Kenya Times,[11] and played in the college tennis circuit.[16] On winning the women's singles title at the World University Games in Mexico City in 1979, she became Kenya's number one women's player.[17] She graduated in 1982,[18] and that year, she and Githuku began dating.[11] Continuing to play tennis after she graduated, she became the reigning women's champion of the 1983 Robbialac Classic Tournament.[19] She lost the singles title in 1984, but she and her sister Judi went on to win the Robbialac women's doubles.[20] She also won the ladies' singles at the 1984 Kenya Closed Championships.[21] In 1986, she and Githuku married and subsequently had two children.[11] Wakhungu-Githuku took the bronze medal in ladies' doubles with Davies Doxzon at the 1987 All-Africa Games in Nairobi,[22] but after her marriage, she curtailed her tennis activities.[23]

Career edit

Wakhungu-Githuku began her career as an economist for the government of Kenya with a plan to work in the public and private sectors to gain enough experience to run a successful business of her own.[24] By 1990, she was working as a programme assistant for the United States Agency for International Development.[25][26] Returning to her studies, she earned a master's degree in research and development planning from the Business School of Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland in 1994,[25][27] and then worked as a programme manager for the Africa Economic Research Consortium in Nairobi.[25][28] She completed a decade of working in management in international non-governmental agencies, working at Care International, before shifting to the private sector to work at The Coca-Cola Company.[25] She worked as human resources director for Coca-Cola's Africa division in London before transferring to Johannesburg, South Africa.[24][29] Working her way up the ladder, she became responsible for learning and development in 90 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and then ended her career in 2009 as the director of Coca-Cola University for Africa and Eurasia.[8][24]

After leaving Coca-Cola, Wakhungu-Githuku opened a business consultancy, Human Performance Dynamics, in Nairobi,[8] focusing on building human resources.[24] She conceived writing a book, Life Journeys: Seeking Destiny, which would tell the stories of successful contemporary Kenyan women,[8][11] such as the actress Lupita Nyong'o, the banker Mary Okelo [fr], the educator Eddah Gachukia, the nurse Wairimu Nyoike, and the scientist Norah Olembo, to counter the stereotypical imaging of Africa as poor and starving.[8] In speaking with publishers, Wakhungu-Githuku found that they wanted her to write the stories in a certain way. Rather than agreeing, in 2010 she opened the publishing house Footprints Press and published the book herself.[11] Over the next seven years, she authored and published nine books.[4] The second, Life Journeys: Scaling Heights, focused on successful Kenyan men including her uncle, Moody Awori, and then 50 Years since Independence: Where Is Kenya? brought together fifty-one authors who shared their thoughts on the socio-economic and political development of Kenya since its independence.[8] By 2020, Wakhungu-Githuku had written, compiled, and published over eleven books, including two 2-volume series. One, Nairobi: 5453ft,[30] written with her daughter Natalie, features illustrations by some of Kenya's most noted photographers, including Osborne Macharia, Thandiwe Muriu, and Bobby Pall and the artist Elias Mong'ora, presenting the musings of thirty-five authors about the city.[30][31] Titled, Mothers and Daughters, the other series includes A Letter to My Daughter from Your Mother and A Letter to My Mother from Your Daughter,[32] both of which explore the complex relationships of mothers and daughters.[30] She has also written Visual Voices (2017), a work about Kenyan artists, and Going the Distance (2020), which focuses on Kenyan runners.[31][33] In 2021, she was honoured as a Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear by the government of Kenya.[3]

Selected works edit

  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2010). Life Journeys: Seeking Destiny – Conversations with High Achieving Women in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-00-4.[11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2011). Life Journeys: Scaling Heights – Conversations with High Achieving Men in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-01-1.[11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2012). Life Journeys Nuggets: Musings on Life. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-06-6.[11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2013). Aspirations of a Generation. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-03-5.[11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2013). 50 Years since Independence: Where Is Kenya? (PDF). Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-11-0.[8][11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2014). Wisdom of the Elders: Personal Reflections of over 70 Kenyans Who Have Lived through Changing Times. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-04-2.[11]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan; Githuku, Natalie, eds. (2017). Nairobi: 5453ft. Vol. 1: Photographic Slices, 2: Personal Musings. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-17-2.[34]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2017). Visual Voices: The Work of over 50 Contemporary Artists in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-16-5.[35]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2019). Mothers and Daughters. Vol. 1: A Letter to My Daughter from Your Mother, 2: A Letter to My Mother from Your Daughter. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-25-7.[32]
  • Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan, ed. (2020). Going the Distance: The Greatest of Kenya's Relentless Runners, 1958-2019. Nairobi, Kenya: Footprints Press. ISBN 978-9966-022-02-8.[33]

References edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b McLean 2022.
  2. ^ Companies House 2020.
  3. ^ a b Kenyatta 2021, p. 6849.
  4. ^ a b Of Africa Magazine 2017.
  5. ^ a b c Kimani 2021.
  6. ^ a b The Standard 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d The Standard 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Business Daily 2014.
  9. ^ Wimbledon 1978.
  10. ^ The Daily Nation 2022.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Genga 2016.
  12. ^ The Daily Nation 2003.
  13. ^ Njuguna 2024.
  14. ^ The EastAfrican 2011.
  15. ^ St. Lawrence University Magazine 2014, pp. 48–49.
  16. ^ Democrat and Chronicle 1979, p. 6D.
  17. ^ The Daily Press 1979, p. 14.
  18. ^ St. Lawrence University Magazine 2014, p. 49.
  19. ^ The Weekly Review 1983, pp. 29–30.
  20. ^ The Weekly Review 1984a, p. 37.
  21. ^ The Weekly Review 1984b, p. 53.
  22. ^ The Weekly Review 1987b, p. 4.
  23. ^ The Weekly Review 1987a, p. 55.
  24. ^ a b c d BBC News 2011.
  25. ^ a b c d Annual Report 2014, p. 8.
  26. ^ Akong'a et al. 1990, p. 27.
  27. ^ The Herald 1994.
  28. ^ Annual Report 1998, p. 46.
  29. ^ Ray 2007.
  30. ^ a b c wa Gacheru 2020.
  31. ^ a b wa Gacheru 2017.
  32. ^ a b Lomer 2022, p. 53.
  33. ^ a b Lomer 2022, p. 52.
  34. ^ Lomer 2022, p. 104.
  35. ^ Lomer 2022, p. 26.

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April 18, 2024
susan, wakhungu, githuku, born, 1960, kenyan, business, executive, writer, publishing, house, founder, youth, ranked, kenya, women, tennis, player, born, bungoma, british, kenya, around, moved, nairobi, while, attending, loreto, convent, valley, road, high, sc. Susan Wakhungu Githuku born 1960 is a Kenyan business executive writer and publishing house founder who in her youth was ranked as Kenya s top women s tennis player She was born in Bungoma in British Kenya and around the age of 11 moved to Nairobi While attending Loreto Convent Valley Road High School she began to play tennis In 1978 she qualified to play in the Junior girls singles at the Wimbledon Championships According to the sports journalist Ross McLean she was the first Kenyan to play in a Junior Grand Slam tournament and until 2022 was the only Kenyan to have qualified for and played in a Junior Grand Slam event at Wimbledon 1 At the 1978 All Africa Games she won the gold medal in women s doubles and the silver medal for the women s singles While studying at St Lawrence University in Canton New York she played in the college circuit After winning a women s singles title at the World University Games in Mexico City in 1979 she became Kenya s top women s player She was the 1983 women s champion at the Robbialac Classic Tournament and won the tournament s women s doubles title with her sister Judi Wakhungu the following year In 1984 she was the winner of the women s matches at the Kenya Closed Championships and in 1987 won the bronze medal in ladies doubles at the All Africa Games before retiring from tennis Susan Wakhungu GithukuBornSusan Nakhanu Wakhungu1960 age 63 64 Bungoma British KenyaOther namesSusan Nakhanu Wakhungu Githuku Susan WakhunguOccupation s Tennis player business executive writerYears active1978 presentRelativesJudi Wakhungu sister Anne Shongwe sister in law Moody Awori uncle Aggrey Awori uncle Wakhungu Githuku began her professional career working for the Kenyan government as an economist She then spent a decade working for various non governmental agencies including the United States Agency for International Development the Africa Economic Research Consortium and Care International as a programme director During this time she returned to her studies obtaining a master s degree in research and development planning from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Scotland At the beginning of the 21st century she began working at The Coca Cola Company as human resources director for the Africa Division in London She later transferred to Johannesburg South Africa and was responsible for learning and development for 90 countries Thereafter she served as the director of Coca Cola University for Africa and Eurasia but left the company in 2009 to found Human Performance Dynamics in Nairobi a business and human resources consultancy Aspiring to write about successful contemporary Kenyans but unable to find a publisher for her works she founded the publishing house Footprints Press in 2010 She has published books on Kenya s development since independence and about notable Kenyan writers photographers and runners both men and women In 2021 she was honoured by the government of Kenya as a Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear Contents 1 Early life sports education and family 2 Career 3 Selected works 4 References 4 1 Citations 4 2 BibliographyEarly life sports education and family editSusan Nakhanu Wakhungu was born in 1960 2 3 in Bungoma British Kenya 4 to Grace nee Awori and Mathew Sarapayi Wakhungu 5 6 Her mother was a teacher and later a businesswoman who was the sister to Moody Awori the ninth Deputy President of Kenya 7 and Aggrey Awori a former Olympic hurdler and a Member of Parliament in Uganda 5 Her father was a medic Bungoma 6 7 Wakhungu was one of five siblings including her sister Judi 7 and brother Ben 5 She lived briefly at Siriba Teacher s Training College in Maseno while her parents were abroad and then when she was eleven moved with her family to Nairobi She also lived briefly in Kampala Uganda and frequently spent time in London where her father later lived She attended Loreto Convent Valley Road High School and while there began to play tennis 8 In 1978 she qualified for the Wimbledon Championships in the Junior girls singles Although she lost her match 9 she was the first Kenyan to play in a Junior Grand Slam tournament According to Ross McLean a writer for the International Tennis Federation she was the only Kenyan to qualify and play in a Junior Grand Slam event at Wimbledon until Angella Okutoyi played in 2022 1 Many Kenyan newspapers state that she was the first Black African woman to have played in the Junior Wimbledon championships 7 8 10 She competed in the 1978 All Africa Games in Algiers Algeria where she met Tony Githuku a fellow Kenyan athlete who competed in swimming and rugby 11 Wakhungu won the silver medal in the women s singles and along with Jane Davies Doxzon won the gold medal in women s doubles 12 13 14 Wakhungu attended university at St Lawrence University in Canton New York 15 While she was studying for her degree in economics and psychology she wrote articles about tennis for the Kenya Times 11 and played in the college tennis circuit 16 On winning the women s singles title at the World University Games in Mexico City in 1979 she became Kenya s number one women s player 17 She graduated in 1982 18 and that year she and Githuku began dating 11 Continuing to play tennis after she graduated she became the reigning women s champion of the 1983 Robbialac Classic Tournament 19 She lost the singles title in 1984 but she and her sister Judi went on to win the Robbialac women s doubles 20 She also won the ladies singles at the 1984 Kenya Closed Championships 21 In 1986 she and Githuku married and subsequently had two children 11 Wakhungu Githuku took the bronze medal in ladies doubles with Davies Doxzon at the 1987 All Africa Games in Nairobi 22 but after her marriage she curtailed her tennis activities 23 Career editWakhungu Githuku began her career as an economist for the government of Kenya with a plan to work in the public and private sectors to gain enough experience to run a successful business of her own 24 By 1990 she was working as a programme assistant for the United States Agency for International Development 25 26 Returning to her studies she earned a master s degree in research and development planning from the Business School of Strathclyde University in Glasgow Scotland in 1994 25 27 and then worked as a programme manager for the Africa Economic Research Consortium in Nairobi 25 28 She completed a decade of working in management in international non governmental agencies working at Care International before shifting to the private sector to work at The Coca Cola Company 25 She worked as human resources director for Coca Cola s Africa division in London before transferring to Johannesburg South Africa 24 29 Working her way up the ladder she became responsible for learning and development in 90 countries across Africa Asia Europe and the Middle East and then ended her career in 2009 as the director of Coca Cola University for Africa and Eurasia 8 24 After leaving Coca Cola Wakhungu Githuku opened a business consultancy Human Performance Dynamics in Nairobi 8 focusing on building human resources 24 She conceived writing a book Life Journeys Seeking Destiny which would tell the stories of successful contemporary Kenyan women 8 11 such as the actress Lupita Nyong o the banker Mary Okelo fr the educator Eddah Gachukia the nurse Wairimu Nyoike and the scientist Norah Olembo to counter the stereotypical imaging of Africa as poor and starving 8 In speaking with publishers Wakhungu Githuku found that they wanted her to write the stories in a certain way Rather than agreeing in 2010 she opened the publishing house Footprints Press and published the book herself 11 Over the next seven years she authored and published nine books 4 The second Life Journeys Scaling Heights focused on successful Kenyan men including her uncle Moody Awori and then 50 Years since Independence Where Is Kenya brought together fifty one authors who shared their thoughts on the socio economic and political development of Kenya since its independence 8 By 2020 Wakhungu Githuku had written compiled and published over eleven books including two 2 volume series One Nairobi 5453ft 30 written with her daughter Natalie features illustrations by some of Kenya s most noted photographers including Osborne Macharia Thandiwe Muriu and Bobby Pall and the artist Elias Mong ora presenting the musings of thirty five authors about the city 30 31 Titled Mothers and Daughters the other series includes A Letter to My Daughter from Your Mother and A Letter to My Mother from Your Daughter 32 both of which explore the complex relationships of mothers and daughters 30 She has also written Visual Voices 2017 a work about Kenyan artists and Going the Distance 2020 which focuses on Kenyan runners 31 33 In 2021 she was honoured as a Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear by the government of Kenya 3 Selected works editWakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2010 Life Journeys Seeking Destiny Conversations with High Achieving Women in Kenya Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 00 4 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2011 Life Journeys Scaling Heights Conversations with High Achieving Men in Kenya Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 01 1 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2012 Life Journeys Nuggets Musings on Life Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 06 6 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2013 Aspirations of a Generation Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 03 5 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2013 50 Years since Independence Where Is Kenya PDF Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 11 0 8 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2014 Wisdom of the Elders Personal Reflections of over 70 Kenyans Who Have Lived through Changing Times Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 04 2 11 Wakhungu Githuku Susan Githuku Natalie eds 2017 Nairobi 5453ft Vol 1 Photographic Slices 2 Personal Musings Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 17 2 34 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2017 Visual Voices The Work of over 50 Contemporary Artists in Kenya Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 16 5 35 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2019 Mothers and Daughters Vol 1 A Letter to My Daughter from Your Mother 2 A Letter to My Mother from Your Daughter Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 25 7 32 Wakhungu Githuku Susan ed 2020 Going the Distance The Greatest of Kenya s Relentless Runners 1958 2019 Nairobi Kenya Footprints Press ISBN 978 9966 022 02 8 33 References editCitations edit a b McLean 2022 Companies House 2020 a b Kenyatta 2021 p 6849 a b Of Africa Magazine 2017 a b c Kimani 2021 a b The Standard 2022 a b c d The Standard 2020 a b c d e f g h Business Daily 2014 Wimbledon 1978 The Daily Nation 2022 a b c d e f g h i j k l Genga 2016 The Daily Nation 2003 Njuguna 2024 The EastAfrican 2011 St Lawrence University Magazine 2014 pp 48 49 Democrat and Chronicle 1979 p 6D The Daily Press 1979 p 14 St Lawrence University Magazine 2014 p 49 The Weekly Review 1983 pp 29 30 The Weekly Review 1984a p 37 The Weekly Review 1984b p 53 The Weekly Review 1987b p 4 The Weekly Review 1987a p 55 a b c d BBC News 2011 a b c d Annual Report 2014 p 8 Akong a et al 1990 p 27 The Herald 1994 Annual Report 1998 p 46 Ray 2007 a b c wa Gacheru 2020 a b wa Gacheru 2017 a b Lomer 2022 p 53 a b Lomer 2022 p 52 Lomer 2022 p 104 Lomer 2022 p 26 Bibliography edit African Dream Kenya s Susan Githuku BBC News London UK 19 September 2011 Archived from the original on 16 February 2024 Retrieved 16 February 2024 Akong a Joshua Cronbach Lee Cronbach Anne Levine Harold G 29 June 1990 Training for Development Evaluation Plan PDF Report Washington D C United States Agency for International Development Report PDC 0085 I 00 9061 00 Archived PDF from the original on 24 February 2017 Retrieved 16 February 2024 Annual Report 1997 98 Report Nairobi Kenya African Economic Research Consortium 1998 Retrieved 16 February 2024 Annual Report amp Financial Statements PDF Report Nairobi Kenya UAP Holdings Limited 2014 Archived PDF from the original on 16 February 2024 Retrieved 16 February 2024 Class Note 1982 St Lawrence University Magazine Canton New York St Lawrence University Winter 2014 ISSN 0745 3582 Archived from the original on 11 February 2024 Retrieved 11 February 2024 Colgate Wins 5th Title in a Row Democrat and Chronicle Rochester New York 22 October 1979 p 6D Retrieved 16 February 2024 via Newspapers com Colgate Women Win Tennis Opener PDF The Daily Press Utica New York 11 September 1979 p 14 Archived from the original PDF on 16 February 2024 Retrieved 16 February 2024 via Old Fulton New York Postcards Dim Hopes for the Games The Weekly Review 636 Nairobi Kenya Stellascope Limited 55 3 July 1987 OCLC 2241306 Retrieved 16 February 2024 Genga Shirley 13 June 2016 Over 50 and fabulous Susan Wakhungu Githuku The Standard Nairobi Kenya Archived from the original on 4 February 2023 Retrieved 15 February 2024 Guns Germs and Ministering Angels The Irresistible 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