Name Filemon Indire | Role Politician | |
Filemon F. Indire (born March 1930) is a politician from Kenya. He served as a Nominated Member of the Parliament of Kenya between 1983 and 1988.
He was also Kenya's ambassador to Russia (then called, the Soviet Union) in the 1960s during Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta's tenure. After that, he served as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
Indire is also an influential Kenyan Quaker, having served as Chairman of the Friend's World Committee for Consultation Africa Section, a Quaker organization that works to communicate between all parts of Quakerism in 1970s. He was also the Chairman of the National Council for Science and Technology in Nairobi, Kenya.
Indire married Abigail Indire, one of the first of 10 African-Kenyan girls to attend high school in Kenya's history. She joined what was then called African Girls High School, but is now known as Alliance Girls High School. She helped lay and pave the pathway for what has become an esteemed and storied institution in Kenyan education.