Priscilla Abwao

Abwao taught at her alma mater, the Kaimasi Friends Primary School, from 1949 to 1951. She became a social worker, assigned to Nyanza province. She became a Community Development Officer in 1956.^[2][3] She was appointed an official visitor to Kisumu Prison in 1962.^[4]

In 1961, Abwao was nominated by Sir Patrick Muir Renison to be the only African woman delegate to the Lancaster House Constitutional Conference.^[5] She presented her "Memorandum on Behalf of African Women to the Kenyan Constitution" at the 1962 meeting, but was not allowed to speak at the event.^[6] She resigned from the conference council in June 1962.^[2] She organized a women's conference in 1962 to plan for women's rights after Kenyan independence, saying "It is not time to sit and gossip. We have to work and build."^[7]

In 1961 and 1962, Abwao served in the Legislative Council (LegCo),^[8] and visited the United States to speak on Kenya's transition to self-rule, sponsored by the Overseas Educational Fund of the League of Women Voters.^[9][10]

Priscilla Agufwana married Johnson Abwao.^[11] They had five daughters.^[11] She died in 2009, in her eighties.^[12]