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This month, Women in Red is focusing on its tenth anniversary and on Kenya. We chose Kenya because it will be the location of this year's Wikimania. It's not our first editathon regarding Kenya. We did one some years back when Women in Red held a 24 hour editathon. Part of the editathon was hosted in Nairobi by Carol Mwaura and she is one of the co-authors of a paper that will be presented atm:WikiWomen* SummitWikiWomenSummit, a Wikimania Day 0 pre-conference.

By all means, donate an improved article or two but the challenge is "Ten forKenya": a new article for every year of Women in Red.

Below is a collection of a number of redlists that include lots of Kenyan women to write about. Feel free to have a look at these if you want to know where to get started. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about these notable women. By doing so, we think you will find some interesting insights into life in Kenya and its rich history. An updated/improved article is a very welcome contribution ... one or two might manage "Ten forKenya!"

As of 23 June 2025,according to Humaniki, there were 1,052 biographies of Kenyan women on English Wikipedia, in contrast to 2,309 of men and 8 for gender diverse Kenyans. This means that31.226% of Kenyan biographies are about women. Let's make this proportion higher!

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women

to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works

• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and ourTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on ourRedlist index, but the obvious one is thelist of Kenyan women in red and there are lots. Remember that this country had a long history before it became a British colony and there were missionaries from many countries.

Other missing Kenyan women:

• Alesandra Ogeta: Transgender rights activist and Director of Programs for Jinsiangu, a Kenyan organization supporting intersex, transgender, and gender non-conforming people. ([1][2])
• Arya Jeipea Karijo: Women's rights and transgender rights activist ([3])
• Angela Wamai: Kenyan filmmaker.
• Susan Kinyua: Kenyan economist, winner of the 2024 Harambee Prize for the Advancement and Equality of African Women for her work in empowering African women.
• Naomi Kipuri, Kenyan educator, development consultant ([4])
• Lucy Mulekei, Kenyan community leader, co-founder of African Indigenous Women’s Organization ([5])

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

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• Victuallers' 10 for Kenya = 1Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a 2Amina Laura Mnyazi 3Mary Maingi 4Susan Kinyua 5Angela Wamai 6Mary Emaase 7Jerusha Mongina Momanyi 8Fatuma Achani 9Precious Blood Secondary School (Riruta) 10Cecily Mutitu Mbarire
• Nayyn's 10 for Kenya = 1Naom Wafula 2Rose Naliaka 3Chanelle Wangari 4Ashley Tshanda Ongong'a 5Jane Ndenga 6Madina Okot 7 8 9 10
• Penny Richards' 10 for Kenya = 1Soni Methu, 2Kavetsa Adagala, 3Wangari wa Nyatetu-Waigwa, 4Linda Donley-Reid, 5Daphne Dale (destub), 6Zena Marshall (destub) 7Evelyn Napier Molony 8Joyce Rugg Gunn 9Ng'endo Mwangi (destub) 10Priscilla Abwao
• SDGB1217's 10 for Kenya = 1Pauline Njeri Kahenya, 2Mercy Wanjiru Gitahi, 3Ijeoma Onyeator, 4Brenda Wambui, 5Fena Gitu, 6Betty Chebet Cherwon, 7Njeri Rionge, 8Esther Mwikali, 9Immaculate Wambua, 10Josephine Wairimu Kagunda

• Please add the special categoryTen for Kenya 2025 to the image if you're uploading a Kenyan image to Commons, it will then be part ofMedia supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025. NOTE: That images only have to be 50 years old to escape Kenya's copyright laws (unless they are artistic) (see the template "PD-Kenya"). You will need a US copyright rationale.

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