Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta, born Kamau wa Ngengi, was born around 1894 at Gatundu, in Kikuyu country. A pupil at the Scottish mission at Thogoto, an employee of the Nairobi municipality, he became general secretary of the Kikuyu Central Association and edited its newspaper, Muiguithania. He lived in Europe from 1931 to 1946 and studied anthropology at the London School of Economics. The first president of independent Kenya from 1964 until his death, he died in 1978 in Mombasa.

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• EssayFacing Mount KenyaJomo Kenyatta · 1938Literature