Iconic mentor-mother Kamm

Dr Maria Kamm is overwhelmed with joy during a symposium for Weruweru alumni. PHOTO | FIDELIS FELIX

What you need to know:

All these women passed through the magical hands of Maria Josephine Kamm, the larger-than-life headmistress of the Moshi-based Weruweru Girls’ secondary school from 1970 to 1992. And, yes, they called her Mama and she addressed and treated them as her daughters.