"for employment, but the head missionary refused because of an allegation of minor dishonesty. Kenyatta moved to Thika, where he gained employment with an engineering firm run by Briton John Cook. In this position, he was tasked with fetching the company wages from a bank in Nairobi, 25 miles away. Kenyatta left the job when he became seriously ill; he recuperated at a friend's house in the Tumutumu Presbyterian mission. At the time, the British Empire was engaged in World War I, and the British Army had recruited many Kikuyu. One of those who joined was Kongo, who disappeared during"
"there were violent attacks against many of those who obtained land through Kenyatta's patronage in these areas. The violence continued sporadically until 1996, with an estimated 1500 killed and 300,000 displaced in the Rift Valley. Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta ( – 22 August 1978) 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 was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British"
"Uhuru is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding father and the first president of the republic of Kenya (in office 1964–1978), with his fourth wife, Mama Ngina Kenyatta. His family hails from the Kikuyu, a Bantu ethnic group. His given name ""Uhuru"" is from the Swahili term for ""freedom"", and was given to him in anticipation of Kenya's upcoming independence. Uhuru attended St Mary's School in Nairobi. Between 1979 and 1980, he also briefly worked as a teller at the Kenya Commercial Bank. After St. Mary's school, Uhuru went on to study economics, political science and government at Amherst"
"Center in Washington, noted that even when an immigration judge makes such a decision, other options exist for an asylum claimant. Onyango, along with other Obama family members, was born into the Luo tribe, Kenya's third-largest (12%) ethnic group. Kenya had longstanding ""ethnic tension between the Luo and Kikuyu""; the Kikuyu are the most populous tribe, accounting for approximately 22% of the country's people. Some of the tensions between the Luo and the Kikuyu date to the mid-1960s post-independence period, when a bitter falling out between the president (a Kikuyu) and his Vice President Jaramogi Odinga (a Luo) resulted in"
"birth ""circa"" 1897 or 1898. Kenyatta's father was named Muigai, and his mother Wambui. They were ""shamba"" folk, living in a homestead near the River Thiririka, where they raised crops and bred sheep and goats. Muigai was sufficiently wealthy that he could afford to keep several wives, each living in a separate ""nyūmba"" (woman's hut). Kenyatta was raised according to traditional Kikuyu custom and belief, and was taught the skills needed to herd the family flock. When he was ten, his earlobes were pierced to mark his transition from childhood. Wambui subsequently bore another son, Kongo, shortly before Muigai died."
"first President, Jomo Kenyatta. He also earned the sobriquet ""Professor of Politics"" due to his long rule of 24 years, the longest in Kenyan history to date. Moi was born in Kurieng'wo village, Sacho division, Baringo County, and was raised by his paternal uncle Kimoi Chebii following the early death of his father. He is of the Tugen sub-group of the Kalenjin people. After completing his secondary education at Kapsabet High School, he attended Tambach Teachers Training College in the Keiyo District. He worked as a teacher from 1946 until 1955. In 1955 Moi entered politics when he was elected"
"Luo people (Kenya) The Luo (also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi, singular Jaluo, Jaonagi or Joramogi/Nyikwaramogi, meaning ""Ramogi's heirs"") are an ethnic group in western Kenya, northern Uganda, and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. They are part of a larger group of ethno-linguistically related Luo peoples who inhabit an area ranging from South Sudan, South-Western Ethiopia, Northern and Eastern Uganda, South-Western Kenya and North-Eastern Tanzania. The Luo are the fourth largest ethnic group (11%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (18%), the Luhya (14%) and the Kalenjin (12%). The Luo and the Kikuyu inherited the bulk of political power in the"
"apart. Later when selecting government officials after independence in 1963, the tension between these two tribes increased as, Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, became president and Daniel Moi, a Kalenjin, became vice-president. After Kenyatta's death, Moi took power and tightened his hold on Kenya through censoring and human rights violations. In 1991 a constitutional reform passed allowing for multipartyism in Kenya. Shortly after in 1992 the first multi-party election since independence took place. Moi won the elections but many doubted the legitimacy of his victory. Violence ensued as Kalenjin supporters of Moi raped, killed, and displaced Kikuyu opposition supporters. Despite Kalenjin"
"Jomo Kenyatta High School Jomo Kenyatta High School is located in Bahati Division, Nakuru County in Kenya. From the time of inception in the 1970s, it has been a Mixed Boarding School until 2016 when it separated to a boys and girls boarding school. Initially, this school was known as Ngwataniro Secondary School, but later renamed after the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. It was pioneered by, among others, the late Kihika Kimani. It is located facing the Menengai Crater on the rise towards the Kenyan Eastern Highlands, in the Great Rift Valley. Near a small center known as"
"Jomo Kenyatta High School Jomo Kenyatta High School is located in Bahati Division, Nakuru County in Kenya. From the time of inception in the 1970s, it has been a Mixed Boarding School until 2016 when it separated to a boys and girls boarding school. Initially, this school was known as Ngwataniro Secondary School, but later renamed after the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. It was pioneered by, among others, the late Kihika Kimani. It is located facing the Menengai Crater on the rise towards the Kenyan Eastern Highlands, in the Great Rift Valley. Near a small center known as"
"Gatundu Gatundu is a small town in Kiambu County of Kenya. It is known for the first Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta who lived about three kilometres away from the town, as well as his son, Uhuru Kenyatta, now the 4th President of Kenya and former Member of Parliament representing Gatundu South Constituency. The town is located on a hill surrounded by many farms and residences. Gatundu has an approximate population of 20,000 people who reside and work within and near the town. Gatundu town is located west of Thika about 29 Kilometers, road distance through Mang'u and north of Kiambu"
"on the fertile lands of the Rift Valley populated by members of Moi's Kalenjin tribe, Kenyatta secured their support by first promoting Moi to Minister for Home Affairs in 1964, and then to Vice-President in 1967. As a member of a minority tribe Moi was also an acceptable compromise for the major tribes. Moi was elected to the Kenyan parliament in 1963 from Baringo North. From 1966 until his retirement in 2002 he served as the Baringo Central MP. However, Moi faced opposition from the Kikuyu elite known as the Kiambu Mafia, who would have preferred one of their own"
"hills. From the blood that flows in me, I say from the same tree, a son shall rise. And his duty shall be to lead and save the people."" Jomo Kenyatta, the first prime minister of Kenya, is immortalised in ""Weep Not, Child"". The author says, ""Jomo had been his (Ngotho's) hope. Ngotho had come to think that it was Jomo who would drive away the white man. To him, Jomo stood for custom and traditions purified by grace of learning and much travel."" Njoroge comes to view Jomo as a messiah who will win the struggle against the colonial"
"And Jomo Kenyatta vehemently defended his country’s territorial integrity even if takes using lethal force. He later adopted a long-term policy that the political issues between the secessionist-inspired NPPP and the two major political parties of KADU and KANU be resolved through consensus and mutual respect. He Interior Minister Aden Lord was a catalyst for the degree of contemporary political participation of Somalis in Kenya. Ali Aden Lord Ali Aden Lord was a Somali, born and raised in Nairobi in 1915 from famous Adan Lord family from Laasqoray. As his last name suggests, he came to acquire, bequeathed in a"
"Goma (people) Goma people (Swahili:Wagoma), (Khihoma:Bahoma), (Ebembe:Bakyobha) are the tribe located in the Kigoma Region in western Tanzania who also have the tendency to refer to themselves as ""Al ghamawiyyun"" in Arabic. They are a contingent of the Bantu tribe who are more commonly found in Tanzania and present day Democratic Republic of Congo who migrated from the western shore of the Lake Tanganyika in Democratic Republic of Congo with origins from Sudan. They are the first group of the Bantu tribe to ever cross the Lake Tanganyika and also the first group to reside in the Urban District of"
"Named after two African anti-colonial leaders, Jomo was born in Penang, Malaysia, soon after the first Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta was incarcerated by the British in late 1952 and years after the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah served as Secretary of the Pan-African Congress. He spent his early years studying at Westlands Primary School (1959–63), the Penang Free School (1964–66) and the Royal Military College (1967–70), when he was selected as Malaysia's delegate to the World Youth Forum in 1970. After graduating cum laude from Yale with a major in economics, Jomo went to the Kennedy School of Government at"
"Pokomo people The Pokomo people are a Bantu ethnic group of southeastern Kenya. The population in Kenya is currently more than 150,000. They are a distinct ethnic group with their own sub-clans/tribes. Despite their proximity, they are not of the nearby Mijikenda people. They are predominantly agriculturalists and both freshwater and ocean fishermen living along the Tana River in Tana River County. They speak the Pokomo language, which is similar to Swahili. The Pokomo population is split into two groups: the Upper Pokomo, who make up 75% of the population, and the Lower Pokomo. The Upper Pokomo are mainly Muslim,"
"Malcolm Kenyatta Malcolm Kenyatta (born July 30, 1990) is a community activist and African-American politician from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who currently serves as a State Representative for the 181st District in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Kenyatta was born to the late Kelly Kenyatta, a nurse and home healthcare aide, and the late Malcolm J. Kenyatta, a social worker, at Temple University Hospital in North Central Philadelphia. His parents were active members of the community, notably for fostering and adopting children in the local neighborhood, including his three siblings, Cheree, Fatima, and Bilalh. As a family, they formed a gospel mime"
"Muhammad Kenyatta Muhammad I. Kenyatta, born Donald Brooks Jackson (March 3, 1944 – January 6, 1992), was an American professor, civil rights leader and international human rights advocate. Jackson changed his name in the early 1970s to Muhammad Kenyatta to honor Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam and Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. In the 1960s, he worked for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which challenged the denial of voting rights to African-Americans in Mississippi. In 1969 he was elected national Vice-President of the Black Economic Development Conference and President of the Greater Philadelphia branch of"
"born in 1640 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was one of Obama's maternal eighth great-grandfathers and is his earliest ancestor known to be born in North America. Obama's family in Kenya are members of the Luo people, the nation's second-largest ethnic group. Linguistically, Luo is one of the Nilotic languages. The Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of Nyanza. Paternal grandfather to Barack Obama, he was born Onyango Obama. (One source gives 1870–1975 as his dates of birth and death, possibly based on his tombstone in his home village. Barack Obama relates finding in 1988 a British"
"Thomas Johnson Kuto Kalume The Right Rev. Thomas Johnson Kuto Kalume was a Kenyan politician and the first Clergyman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) in the history of the National Assembly of Kenya. Rev. Kalume was a composer and co-producer of the Kenyan national anthem, which was recorded in English and Swahili in September 1963 and inaugurated at Uhuru Gardens on December 12, 1963 during Kenya's independence celebrations. The anthem bears an original African traditional tune from the Pokomo tribe in the coast. Rev. Kalume was born in Dagamra division of Bate location near the historical tourist town"
"Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 1961), Anna Nyokabi Muthama Kenyatta (born May 1963) Muhoho Kenyatta (born 1965). Mama Ngina lives quietly as a wealthy widow in Kenya. Uhuru Kenyatta unsuccessfully vied for the Kenyan presidency as President Moi's preferred successor in 2002. He served as Minister of Local Government and Minister of Finance, and in 2013 he was elected as President and later on re-elected in 2017. Muhoho Kenyatta runs his mother's vast family business but lives out of the public limelight. Kenyatta was the uncle of Ngethe Njoroge, Kenya's first representative to the United Nations and the great uncle of"
"Africa Protectorate. In 1963, Kenya gained its independence from the British Crown and effectively became a republic the following year. The country’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, took over property that belonged to wealthy white settlers and redistributed it amongst Kenyans, favoring the Kikuyu in particular. Although he claimed that the country had achieved “political stability” by strengthening its economy through tourism and other reforms, underlying social tensions between the Kikuyu and other minority groups (which counted altogether comprised a 70% majority) remained. Also, Kenya’s rapid population growth, combined with the migration of people from rural areas to the"
"were thought as an impediment. liberation movement. Muthoni wa Kirima was born in 1931 in Kenya's central region. Muthoni's journey as a revolutionary started when she was a girl, saving money to have Jomo Kenyatta travel abroad to bring freedom. Although her parents worked on a European farm, after her marriage to Gen Mutungi, she moved to a village reserve for Africans in Nyeri before joining the Mau Mau. In her 20s, she first worked as a spy for Mau Mau fighters who had camped in the forest when war broke out in 1952. She was one of the very"
"June 16, 2014, gunmen killed at least 48 people in a bloody attack. Mpeketoni Mpeketoni is a town in Lamu County, on the Kenyan coast. It is a settlement scheme started in 1960s by the first president of the Republic of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta near a fresh water lake bearing his name. Mpeketoni lies in Lamu County, , south of the Garsen–Witu–Lamu Highway, approximately southwest of Mokowe, on the coast. The coordinates of the town are: 2°23'28.0""S, 40°41'50.0""E (Latitude:-2.391119; Longitude:40.697233). Originally, Mpeketoni and its surroundings were inhabited by Swahilis called Wabajuni and a small hunting and gathering tribe by the"
"of tradition in colonial Africa"". After the United Kingdom entered World War II in September 1939, Kenyatta and Stock left London for the village of Storrington in Sussex. Kenyatta remained there for the duration of the war, renting a flat and a small plot of land to grow vegetables and raise chickens. He settled into rural Sussex life, and became a regular at the village pub, where he gained the nickname ""Jumbo"". In August 1940, he took a job at a local farm as an agricultural worker—allowing him to evade military conscription—before working in the tomato greenhouses at Lindfield. He"
"Pokomo language Pokomo (""Kipfokomo"") is a Bantu language spoken primarily along the East African coast near Tana River in the Tana River District by the Pokomo people of Kenya. Kipfokomo language originated from ""Kingozi"" the language, which Kiswahili was built from. ""Kingozi"" language is the precursor of Kiswahili. Pokomos are the only tribe in the world that speak ""Kingozi"" and sometimes are referred to as wangozi because they used to wear skins (Ngozi). All adult speakers of Pokomo are bilingual in Swahili, East Africa's lingua franca. There is high of lexical similarity between other languages like Mvita (63%), Amu (61%),"
"Facing Mount Kenya Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the people of the Kikuyu ethnicity of central Kenya. It was written by native Kikuyu and future Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta. The book's introduction was written by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, who mentored Kenyatta while both were at the London School of Economics. Malinowski wrote 'As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change and as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African, this book will rank as a pioneering achievement"
"Mrima (60%), Kigiryama (59%), Chidigo (58%) or Bajun (57%). Pokomo language Pokomo (""Kipfokomo"") is a Bantu language spoken primarily along the East African coast near Tana River in the Tana River District by the Pokomo people of Kenya. Kipfokomo language originated from ""Kingozi"" the language, which Kiswahili was built from. ""Kingozi"" language is the precursor of Kiswahili. Pokomos are the only tribe in the world that speak ""Kingozi"" and sometimes are referred to as wangozi because they used to wear skins (Ngozi). All adult speakers of Pokomo are bilingual in Swahili, East Africa's lingua franca. There is high of lexical"
"brought them to southeast Africa about 2,000 years ago. Most Bantu are farmers. Some of the prominent Bantu groups in Kenya include the Kikuyu, the Kamba, the Luhya, the Kisii, the Meru, and the Mijikenda. The Swahili people are descended from Mijikenda Bantu peoples that intermarried with Arab and Persian immigrants. Cushitic peoples form a small minority of Kenya's population. They speak languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family and originally came from Ethiopia and Somalia in northeastern Africa. Most are herdsmen and Muslim. Cushites are concentrated in the northernmost North Eastern Province, which borders Somalia. The Cushitic peoples are divided"
"For this reason, Njoroge is not upset by her exit and their separation. Njoroge switches to another school. For a time, everyone's attention is focused on the upcoming trial of Jomo Kenyatta – a revered leader of the movement. Many blacks think that he is going to bring forth Kenya’s independence. But Jomo loses the trial and is imprisoned. This results in further protests and greater suppression of the black population. Jacobo and a white landowner, Mr. Howlands, fight against the rising activities of the Mau Mau, an organization striving for Kenyan economic, political, and cultural independence. Jacobo accuses Ngotho"
"Odhiambo ""Odhiambo""' is a Luo surname meaning "" evening""- ""light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars sky”. Luos are a major tribe in East Africa and belong to the River Lake Nilotes. They migrated from Bahr el Ghazal. The Luo (also called Jo Luo and Luo of Bahr el Ghazal) are an ethnic group in western parts of South Sudan. They are part of a larger group of ethnolinguistically related Luo peoples of East Africa.[1] They speak the Dholuo language which is a Northern Luo language.[2][3] They are related to the Dholuo speaking Joluo of Kenya and Tanzania. The"
"known as ""Jeni"", born May 1963) and Muhoho Kenyatta (born 1965). Her son Uhuru, the senior Kenyatta's political heir, unsuccessfully ran for president as President Moi's preferred successor in 2002 and is today the Kenyan fourth President. Muhoho Kenyatta runs the family's vast business but lives out of the public limelight. During Jomo Kenyatta's exile at Lodwar and Maralal, Ngina stayed with him, as did their daughters, Jane and Wamboi. Mama Ngina is step-mother to Kenyatta's other three children, two by his first wife and one by the second. Monsignor George Muhoho, Roman Catholic chaplain at University of Nairobi, is"