Pamela Mboya

Pamela Mboya
Pamela Mboya on honeymoon with Tom Mboya, 1962
Born
Pamela Odede

1938 (1938)
Maseno, Kenya
Died26 January 2009(2009-01-26) (aged 70–71)
South Africa
Alma materMakerere University; Western College for Women
OccupationsPolitical activist, diplomat, educator
Known forKenya's permanent representative to UN Habitat; political activism; widow of Tom Mboya
SpouseTom Mboya (m. 1962–1969)
Children6 (including Maureen Odero and Susan 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.