Maryamu Okelo

Mary Okelo (an haife ta Elizabeth Mary Awori) 'yar bankin Kenya ce kuma 'yar kasuwa, wacce aka fi sani da zama mace ta farko ta Afirka mai kula da bankin Barclays yayin da take aiki a Bankin Barclays na Kenya a shekarar 1977. An kuma san Okelo da kafa makarantar sakandare mai zaman kanta ta Makini, da kuma matsayinta na babban mai ba da shawara ga Bankin Ci Gaban Afirka da mataimakin shugaban Bankin Duniya na Mata. 

Okelo 'yar'uwar ɗan siyasan Uganda Aggrey Awori ce da' yan siyasan Kenya Moody da Wycliffe Wasya Work Awori . 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife ta Elizabeth Mary Awori a garin Busia a kan iyaka da Kenya da Uganda, Okelo ita ce ta goma sha huɗu cikin yara goma sha bakwai na Minista Anglican Jeremiah Musungu Awori da nas Mariamu Awori . 'Yan uwanta sun hada da ɗan siyasan Uganda Aggrey Awori da' yan siyasan Kenya Moody da Wycliffe Wasya Work Awori .  

## Ilimi
Yayinda yake yaro, Okelo ta halarci makarantar firamare ta Ikilisiyar Anglican ta Nambale, makarantar Butere Church Mission Society, da kuma Makarantar Sakandare ta Alliance Girls, ta zama ɗaya daga cikin ɗaliban mata goma sha uku na Kenya da aka zaba don shiga cikin darussan jami'a a makarantar ta ƙarshe. Bayan kammala karatunsa na makarantar sakandare, Okelo ya shafe shekara guda yana aiki a matsayin Mai tsaron kurkuku kafin ya sami digiri na farko a tarihi a Jami'ar Makerere da ke Uganda.

## Ayyuka
Okelo joined the Barclays Bank management trainee program in July 1967 after several unsuccessful applications, becoming the first African woman to enter the program. The training involved two years of diploma studies in banking at the British Institute of Bankers in London, where she lived from 1967 to 1969. Upon returning to Kenya Okelo began working at Barclays as a manager's assistant, later being promoted to sub-manager. In 1973 she was offered a promotion to become the manager at a Barclays branch in Nakuru, however, Okelo turned this promotion down in order to remain with her family in Nairobi.

A shekara ta 1977 an nada ta manajan reshen Westlands Barclays mai gwagwarmaya a lokacin, ta zama mace ta farko a Kenya da ta rike irin wannan mukamin. Yayinda yake aiki a Barclays Okelo ya kafa kungiyar mata ta Bankin Barclays don tallafawa mata masu banki. A farkon shekarun 1980 ta kafa Kenya Women's Finance Trust (KFWT), wani bangare na Bankin Duniya na Mata, tare da 'yar'uwarta Christine Hayanga. Okelo ta yi aiki na cikakken lokaci a Barclays har zuwa 1985, lokacin da aka nada ta a matsayin wakilin yankin Afirka na farko a Bankin Duniya na Mata.

A shekara ta 1987 ta koma Abidjan a Côte d'Ivoire don zama babban mata na farko ga shugaban Bankin Raya Afirka,   kuma a shekarar 1990 an nada ta mataimakin shugaban Bankin Duniya na Womens. 

A shekara ta 1978 Okelo da mijinta sun kafa Riara Gardens Academy, makarantar kula da yara mai zaman kanta wacce da farko ta yi wa dalibai 8 hidima kuma tana aiki daga gidan Okelo.[1][2][3] Daga baya aka sake masa suna Makarantar Makini, aikin ya fadada a cikin shekarun 1980 don rufe dukkan matakan ilimin firamare bayan gina ginin makarantar da aka keɓe a shekarar 1982. A cikin shekarun 1990s aikin ya rabu zuwa makarantu uku (Makini Lower Primary School, Makini Middle Primary School), da Makini Upper Primary School) suna zaune a gine-gine daban-daban kuma suna zama sanannun Makini Schools. Makini Schools sun fadada don bayar da ilimin sakandare a cikin 1997, kuma an ƙaddamar da shirin Baccalaureate na Duniya (IB) a cikin 1998.[3]

Okelo ta sadu da mijinta, Pius Alois Okelo, yayin karatun banki a London. Ma'aurata sun yi aure a shekara ta 1968, a wani bikin aure na London wanda 'yan uwan Okelo da Babban Kwamishinan Kenya a Burtaniya Josephat Karanja suka halarta, kuma suna da 'ya'ya uku. Pius Okelo ya mutu a Hadarin mota a shekara ta 2004. 

## Manazarta