Jacqueline Olweya: From child bride’s daughter to UNDP envoy

Dr Jacqueline Saline Olweya poses for photo after the interview at her residence on April 15, 2026. Francis Nderitu

Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

To know Dr Jacqueline Saline Olweya, you have to go back to the mid-1930s, to her mother.

The night she was forcefully married off at eight years old, there was a lunar eclipse – a sign, she would later tell her daughter, that the marriage was blessed. The man she was married to would become Jacqueline’s father and one of the two great influences on her life.

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