Conjestina Achieng is Kenyan female boxer who was been nicknamed "Hands of Stone". She has fought various tournaments and is ranked number five in the world and the best in Kenya.
She is the fifth born in a family of ten, having been introduced into boxing by his elder brother, Joseph Kusimba, who is an ex-boxer who runs a boxing club in Mathare, Nairobi.
Conjestina Achieng hit the limelight on our television when she became the first African woman to hold an international title when she beat Ugandan Fiona Tugume to take the vacant WIBF Middleweight title.
However, she also lost out in controversial title fight circumstances to then WBC and WBA Super middleweight Natascha Ragosina.
Conjestina Achieng is a single mother and played in the middleweight division.Her hardworking nature saw her providing for her son and younger sisters who are still in school, and all of them depend on her hard work.
She loved doing arts and crafts and still pursues drawing and painting.Her passion for sports began at age 9 when she was a pupil at St. Jesus Primary School in Yala and that is why she loved nurturing children talents at their youngest age.
She had a passion for small children as she volunteered at a nearby school regularly assisting children through their assignments and marking their books.
Later in her career, she was admitted at the Mathari hospital in Nairobi which specializes in mental health care.
She battled mental illness and drug abuse problems before escaping a mental hospital and going back to her rural village, Siaya.
She has thereafter sought treatment at Mathari Hospital after her father sent an appeal to Kenyans to help him take her to hospital. Her behavior had deteriorated from the norm. She was later released.
She will forever be remembered as a female boxing icon who pioneered female boxing in Kenya. As much as she advocated for boxing to be promoted as a means of livelihood to boxers her dream is still yet to come true.