Activist and politician Boniface Mwangi penned a heartfelt message for his wife as he marked his birthday, their marriage anniversary and womens day on the same day, 3/7/2018.
Boniface Mwangi who lost in Starahe constituency has remained side aligned from either supporting Raila Odinga or Uhuru Kenyatta.
Even though he had been an activist for a very long time, it did not come as a shock when he decided to join active politics in Kenya.
Read his message below.
On July 10 2007, to celebrate my 24th birthday and the anniversary of our first date, I proposed to her. Just beforehand I had travelled to South Africa and visited Mandela’s cell on Robben Island. I shot the video of me proposing in that cell. Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years confined to that small space. The floor was his bed and there was a bucket for a toilet. I proposed from the shadows of a man I had grown up celebrating and admiring.
She wept as she watched the video and when it ended I went on my knee and proposed. This was in the presence of her parents, her close friend and my workmates, as they were celebrating my birthday with me. Maybe the video was a sign of the direction my life would take – a determination to fighting injustice.
Incidentally, Njeri had sworn that she would never marry a journalist, a politician or a younger man. I was a journalist who wanted to join politics and slightly younger than her. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2008 we were married. My wife is the fire that keeps me going.
Happy International women’s day.
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