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Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and a conservative, he led the Kenya African Nati…
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culture · President of Kenya from 1964 to 1978 · journalist · politician · also Jomo Kenyatta, Kamau wa Ngengi, President Mzee Jomo Kenyata, Mzee Jomo Kenyata, Kenyatta
Born 20 October 1893 · Died 22 August 1978 · Q173563
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2026· 2 entries
“s findings; they claimed that the government had used them as scapegoats as a pretext to shut down KAU. The historian Wunyabari O. Maloba later characterised it as”
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2024· 2 entries
Travel News: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Voted Africa’s Leading Airport
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eturbonews: Flights Resume at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
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2022· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Video of Kenyatta making first address after polls” FALSE.
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2021· 1 entry
Claimed: ““The combined administrations of Mzee [Jomo] Kenyatta, Mzee [Daniel arap] Moi and Mzee [Mwai] Kibaki increased this national cake to KSh4.5 trillion in a span of 50 years.”” — rated Misleading by Africa Check.
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2020· 1 entry
Claimed: “‘After independence, our Founding Fathers built an extra 11,200 kilometres of tarmacked roads. This was done in a period of 50 years by President Jomo Kenyatta, President Moi and President Kibaki, at an average of 224 kilometres per year.’” — rated Incorrect by Africa Check.
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2018· 1 entry
Maloba described him as "one of the legendary pioneers of modern African nationalism"
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2003· 1 entry
“English as a Global Language”
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1991· 2 entries
The Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist Gibson Kamau Kuria noted that in abolishing the federal system, banning independent candidates from standing in elections, setting up a unicameral legislature, and relaxing res
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And 1992 there were violent attacks against many of those who obtained land through Kenyatta's patronage
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1982· 1 entry
Would amend the Kenyan constitution to create a de jure one-party state
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1978· 1 entry
Died 1978-08-22.
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1977· 1 entry
Kenyatta had several further strokes or heart attacks
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1976· 1 entry
The Israelis warned of a plot by the Palestinian Liberation Army to assassinate him, a threat he took seriously
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1974· 1 entry
Arnold referred to Kenyatta as "one of the outstanding African leaders now living", someone who had become "synonymous with Kenya"
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1969· 1 entry
The MP Jean-Marie Seroney censured the sale of historically Nandi lands in the Rift to non-Nandi, describing the settlement schemes as "Kenyatta's colonization of the rift"
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1968· 1 entry
“Suffering Without Bitterness: The Founding of the Kenya Nation”
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1966· 3 entries
It passed the Public Security (Detained and Restricted Persons) Regulations, allowing the authorities to arrest and detain anyone "for the preservation of public security" without putting them on trial
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Odinga stepped down as state vice president, claiming that Kenya had failed to achieve economic independence and needed to adopt socialist policies
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It launched a commission to examine reforms to local government operations, and in 1969 passed the Transfer of Functions Act, which terminated grants to local authorities and transferred major services from provincial to
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1965· 5 entries
He, for instance, received medals from both Pope Paul VI and from the South Korean government
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The government established the Kenya National Trading Corporation to ensure indigenous control over the trade in essential commodities, while the Trade Licensing Act of 1967 prohibited non-citizens from involvement in th
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When Thomas Mboya was minister for economic planning and development, the government issued a session paper titled "African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya", in which it officially declared its commitm
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The government introduced free medical services for out-patients and children
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Transformed the Kenya Federation of Labour into the Central Organization of Trade (COT), a body which came under strong government influence
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1964· 5 entries
Oxford University Press published a collection of Kenyatta's speeches under the title of Harambee
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Career landmark: President of Kenya (1964–1978).
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Schools formerly reserved for European pupils were opened to Africans and Asians
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Kenya and the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding, one of only two military alliances Kenyatta's government made; the British Special Air Service trained Kenyatta's own bodyguards
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Kenyatta impounded a secret shipment of Chinese armaments that passed through Kenyan territory on its way to Uganda
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1963· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kenya (1963–1964).
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1962· 2 entries
The white minority had produced 80% of the country's exports and were a vital part of its economy, yet between 1962 and 1963 they were emigrating at a rate of 700 a month; Kenyatta feared that this white exodus would cau
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Returned to London to attend one of the Lancaster House conferences
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1958· 1 entry
Rawson Macharia, the key witness in the state's prosecution of Kenyatta, signed an affidavit swearing that his evidence against Kenyatta had been false; this was widely publicised
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1955· 1 entry
The British writer Montagu Slater—a socialist sympathetic to Kenyatta's plight—released The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, a book which raised the profile of the case
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1952· 1 entry
Was among the Kapenguria Six arrested and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising
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1951· 1 entry
Married his fourth wife, Ngina, who was one of the few female students at his college; she then gave birth to a daughter
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1947· 1 entry
Was elected President of the Kenya African Union, through which he lobbied for independence from British colonial rule, attracting widespread indigenous support but animosity from white settlers
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1938· 1 entry
Published an anthropological study of Kikuyu life before working as a farm labourer in Sussex during the Second World War
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1935· 1 entry
Italy invaded Ethiopia (Abyssinia), incensing Kenyatta and other Africans in London; he became the honorary secretary of the International African Friends of Abyssinia, a group established by Padmore and C
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1931· 1 entry
Kenyatta took his son out of the church school at Thogota and enrolled him in a KCA-approved, independent school
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1929· 1 entry
Travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs
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1919· 1 entry
Assisted Kioi in putting the latter's case in a land dispute before a Nairobi court
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1917· 1 entry
Kenyatta moved to Narok, where he was involved in transporting livestock to Nairobi, before relocating to Nairobi to work in a store selling farming and engineering equipment
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1913· 1 entry
Underwent the Kikuyu circumcision ritual; the missionaries generally disapproved of this custom, but it was an important aspect of Kikuyu tradition, allowing Kenyatta to be recognized as an adult
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-10-20.
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1890· 1 entry
Or 1891, although a fuller analysis by Jeremy Murray-Brown suggested a birth c
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