KIBAKI was once a makanga in 1946
The late President Kibaki later joined Karima mission school for three more classes of primary school then later moved to Mathari School currently, Nyeri High School between 1944 and 1946 for Standard four to six, where, in addition to his academic studies, he learnt carpentry and masonry as students would repair furniture and provide material for maintaining the school’s buildings.
While in school he earned extra money by growing his own food as all students in the school were expected to do.
Similarly, during the school holidays he worked as a conductor on buses operated by the defunct Othaya African Bus Union.
He proceeded to Mang’u High School where he studied between 1947 and 1950. He passed with a maximum of six points in his “O” level examination by passing six subjects with Grade 1 Distinction. Here is a bus of the old 50s and 60s which plied the same route that kibaki used to operate as a “donda”.
