Editor's Review

Veteran politician and Kenya's first female rally driver Orie Rogo Manduli is dead.

Veteran politician and Kenya's first female rally driver Orie Rogo Manduli is dead.

According to her family, Manduli died at her Riverside home in Nairobi on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. 

Manduli was born in Maseno, Kisumu County to Gordon Rogo and Zeruiah Adhiambo.

In a past interview, she disclosed that she attended Ng’iya Girls High School, Butere Girls, and then Machakos Girls.

Manduli got married after clearing her studies at Machakos Teachers College. Together with the husband, they were blessed with three daughters but divorced after five years.

She was the first Kenyan woman to participate in the East African Safari rally in 1974 and 1975.

Condolence messages have been pouring in: