Hillary Ng'weno

Who is Hillary Ng'weno?

Hillary Boniface Ng’weno is a retired Kenyan journalist. The Harvard educated nuclear scientist, a Luhya from Samia, Busia district, was born in Nairobi. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in nuclear physics, Ng’weno worked as a reporter for the Daily Nation for nine months before his appointment as the newspaper’s first Kenyan editor-in-chief. He resigned in 1965 and established a successful career as a journalist for more than forty years. In 1973, together with journalist Terry Hirst, he founded Joe, a political satire comic amgazine that circulated in many parts of Africa until the late seventies when its publication ceased.