Hilary Boniface Ng’weno is a Kenyan historian and retired journalist. The Harvard-educated scientist was born in Nairobi in 1938, to the late Morris Onyango. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics, Ng’weno worked as a reporter for the Daily Nation for nine months before his appointment as the newspaper’s first Kenyan editor-in-chief. He resigned in 1965 and established a successful career as a journalist for more than forty years. In 1973, together with journalist Terry Hirst, he founded Joe, a political satire comic magazine that circulated in many parts of Africa until the late seventies when its publication ceased. He is best known as the editor-in-chief of the , a weekly newsmagazine than ran from 1975 to 1999. He is also the founder of The Nairobi Times and the first i