Shortly after, they got married in the British capital. Okello was sent to London for a management trainee program where she met her husband Pius in 1968. RELATED : MAKINI SCHOOLS OWNER TO EARN A FORTUNE FROM SALEĭr. She would later head to Barclays Bank for a graduate trainee job, a position she got after being thwarted countless times for being a woman. “I didn’t consider myself diplomatic enough for that career,” she said during the same interview. Okello worked a short stint at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before discovering that she did not have the diplomatic nous needed to last there The mother of three later proceeded to Makerere University where she acquired her Bachelor’s Degree in History.Īfter her undergraduate studies, Dr. Akello went to Alliance Girls High School for her A-Levels after which she joined the Kenya Prisons briefly as a cadet. She is the daughter to Canon Jeremiah Awori, an Anglican clergyman and hails from a family of some of Kenya’s biggest names including former Vice President Moody Awori and Nelson Awori, the pioneer cardiologist in Kenya.ĭr. Okello described herself as a Christian and a woman of strong faith which goes a long way in explaining how she has built an empire that many people can only dream about. In an interview with Parents Magazine in November 2017, Dr. Also within the family’s vast business empire is AFBE, the first association of Family Business Enterprises in Kenya.
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