Mayor of Nairobi
The Mayor of Nairobi was the non-executive head of Nairobi City Council in Nairobi, Kenya until the new constitution of 2010 which devolved government was enacted. The Mayor's office, officially the Mayor’s Palour, was located at City Hall Nairobi. The last mayor of Nairobi was George Aladwa of ODM, elected on 10 August 2011.[1]
There was no Mayor of Nairobi from 1983 to 1992 because the City Council of Nairobi was replaced by a City Commission appointed by then president Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi. The City Council was restored after the multi-party elections of 1992. The following is a list of the mayors of Nairobi from the time the city was a colonial town. Some names and other relevant details may be missing due to unavailable information.
Mayor | Term begin | Term end | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Grace Collict | 1923 | 1924 | First mayor of Nairobi |
Charles Udall | 1924 | 1925 | |
James Riddell | 1925 | 1927 | |
Alfred Thomas Wood | 1927 | 1929 | |
Charles Udall | 1929 | 1930 | |
Franze Rudolf Mayer | 1930 | 1931 | |
James Riddell | 1931 | 1933 | |
Joseph Mortimer | 1933 | 1934 | |
Edward (George) Gwinnett Bompas | 1934 | 1936 | |
Alfred Thomas Wood | 1936 | 1937 | Died April 1944[2] |
Joseph Mortimer | 1937 | 1938 | Died 24 November 1948[3] |
Gwladys, Lady Delamere | 1938 | 1940 | First female mayor of Nairobi |
Ernest Albert Vasey | 1941 | 1942 | |
Charles Udall | 1942 | 1944 | |
Ernest Albert Vasey | 1944 | 1946 | |
Tyson George Alfred | 1946 | 1947 | |
Frederick George Richard Woodley | 1949 | 1950 | |
Norman Harris | 1950 | 1952 | |
Dr. J.R. Gregory | 1952 | 1953 | |
Harold Travis | 1953 | 1954 | |
Reggie S. Alexander | 1954 | 1955 | First local born mayor of Nairobi |
Israel Somen | 1957 | 1959 | First Jewish mayor |
Marjorie Needham-Clarke | 1959 | 1960 | |
Harold Travis | 1961 | 1962 | Last European mayor |
Charles Rubia | 1963 | 1967 | First African mayor of Nairobi |
Isack Lugonzo | 1967 | 1970 | |
Margaret Kenyatta (mayor) | 1970 | 1976 | |
Andrew Ngumba | 1977 | 1980 | |
Nathan Kahara | 1980 | 1983 | |
VACANT | 1983 | 1992 | Abolished by Daniel Arap Moi and run by a succession of Commissions |
Steve Flavian Mwangi | 1993 | 1994 | |
Dick Waweru | 1994 | 1996 | |
John King'ori | 1996 | 1998 | |
Sammy Mbugua | 1998 | 1999 | |
John Ndirangu | 1999 | 2001 | |
Dick Waweru | 2001 | 2002 | |
Joe Aketch | 2003 | 2004 | |
Dickson Wathika | 2004 | 2008 | |
Geoffrey Majiwa | 2008 | 2010 | |
George Aladwa | 2010 | 2012 |
Sources
- ↑ "ODM's Aladwa elected Nairobi Mayor". The Standard. 11 August 2011.
- ↑ "No title". Lancashire Evening Post. 20 April 1944 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Deaths". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 27 November 1948.
References
1. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=65262
2. http://allafrica.com/stories/200802291074.html
3. Norman Harris: From trusteeship to development: how class and gender complicated Kenya's housing policy, 1939–1963
4. Lady Gwladys (Gladys) Delamere: http://eawl.org/eawl-1940s.html
- Lady Gwladys (Gladys) Delamere http://soysambuconservancy.wordpress.com/history/
5. Reward those who value colonial heritage Posted Saturday, 10 July 2010 at 17:31 daily nation.com
6. http://www.oldcambrians.com/Photos-QueenMother1959.html
7. Red strangers: the white tribe of Kenya By Christine Stephanie Nicholls
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/kenya.html
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/kenya.html