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<h1 id="title">Jomo Kenyatta</h1>
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A Freedom Fighter, a Prime Minister and the 1 <sup>st</sup> President of Kenya.
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<li><strong>1894</strong> - Born in Ichaweri, Kiambu</li>
<li><strong>1914</strong> - Converted to Christianity, assuming the name John Peter, which he then changed to Johnstone Kamau.</li>
<li><strong>1920</strong> - Married Grace Wahu, under Kikuyu customs. When Grace got pregnant, his church elders ordered him to get married before a European magistrate, and undertake the appropriate church rites.</li>
<li><strong>1922</strong> - Kamau began working, as a store clerk and water-meter reader for the Nairobi Municipal Council Public Works Department, under John Cook, the Water Superintendent at the time.</li>
<li><strong>1924</strong> - Joined the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) his first political party</li>
<li><strong>1928</strong> - Became KCA's Secretary General</li>
<li><strong>1928</strong> - Launched a monthly Kikuyu-language newspaper called Muĩgwithania (Reconciler) which aimed to unite all sections of the Kikuyu. The paper, supported by an Asian-owned printing press, had a mild and unassuming tone, and was tolerated by the colonial government and also made a presentation on Kikuyu land problems before the Hilton Young Commission in Nairobi.</li>
<li><strong>1929</strong> - KCA sent Kenyatta to London to lobby on its behalf with regard to Kikuyu tribal land affairs. Using the name Johnstone Kenyatta, he published articles and letters to the editor in The Times and the Manchester Guardian.</li>
<li><strong>1930</strong> Returned to Kenya, welcomed at port town of Mombasa by his wife Wahu and James Beauttah. He later worked for Kikuyu Independent Schools in Githunguri.</li>
<li><strong>1931</strong> - returned to London and enrolled in Woodbrooke Quaker College in Birmingham. Discouraged by the lack of official response to the land claims he was putting forward, he began an association with British Communists, who published articles he wrote in their publications.</li>
<li><strong>1932</strong> - Started studying economics in Moscow at the Comintern School, KUTVU (University of the Toilers of the East) but left after the Soviet Union (worried about Hitler's growing power and seeing Britain and France as potential allies) withdrew its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa</li>
<li><strong>1934</strong> - Enrolled at University College London and from 1935 studied social anthropology under Bronisław Malinowski at the London School of Economics (LSE). He was a member of the executive committee of the International African Friends of Abyssinia (formed in 1935),[7] and was an active member of the International African Service Bureau, a pan-Africanist, anti-colonial organisation that had formed around former international communist leader George Padmore, who had also become disillusioned with the Soviet Union and himself moved to London</li>
<li><strong>1938</strong> - Under his new name, Jomo Kenyatta. The name "Jomo" is translated in English to "Burning Spear", while the name "Kenyatta" was said[by whom?] to be a reference to the beaded Masai belt he wore, and later to "the Light of Kenya". After the war, he wrote a pamphlet (with some content contributed by Padmore), Kenya: The Land of Conflict, published by the International African Service Bureau under the imprint Panaf Service</li>
<li><strong>1942</strong> - married an Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. He also published My People of Kikuyu and the Life of Chief Wang'ombe, a history shading into legend</li>
<li><strong>1946</strong> - Kenyatta returned to Kenya in after almost 15 years abroad.</li>
<li><strong>1946</strong> - Married for the third time, to Grace Wanjiku, Senior Chief Koinange's daughter, and sister to Mbiyu Koinange (who later became a lifelong confidant and was one of the most powerful politicians during Kenyatta's presidency).</li>
<li><strong>1947</strong> - elected president of the Kenya African Union (KAU). He began to receive death threats from white settlers after his election.</li>
<li><strong>1951</strong> - Married again to Ngina Muhoho, daughter of Chief Muhoho. She was popularly referred to as Mama Ngina and was independent Kenya's First Lady, when Kenyatta was elected President.</li>
<li><strong>1952</strong> - Kenyatta was arrested in and indicted with five others on the charges of "managing and being a member" of the Mau Mau Society, a radical anti-colonial movement engaged in rebellion against Kenya's British rulers</li>
<li><strong>1960</strong> - Public meeting of 25,000 in Nairobi demanded his release. On 15 April 1960, over a million signatures for a plea to release him were presented to the Governor. On 14 May 1960, he was elected KANU </li>
<li><strong>1961</strong> - Was released and brought to Gatundu</li>
<li><strong>1963</strong> - Pitting Kenyatta's KANU (Kenya African National Union- which advocated for Kenya to be a unitary state) against KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union – which advocated for Kenya to be an ethnic-federal state). KANU beat KADU by winning 83 seats out of 124.Kenyatta became prime minister of the autonomous Kenyan government</li>
<li><strong>1963</strong> - Kenyatta retained the role of prime minister after independence was declared and jubilantly celebrated</li>
<li><strong>1964</strong> - He had Parliament amend the Constitution to make Kenya a republic. The office of prime minister was replaced by a president with wide executive and legislative powers</li>
<li><strong>1964</strong> - KADU officially dissolved and its representatives joined KANU, forming a single party</li>
<li><strong>1978</strong> - Dies in Mombasa of natural causes attributable to old age; he was about 86 at the time of his death</li>
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We shall continue to remember Mzee Jomo Kenyatta through his words:
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"You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials"
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If you have time, you should read more about this incredible human being on his
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta" target="_blank">wikipedia entry</a>
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