Jomo Kenyatta

✶October 20, 1893

†August 22, 1978

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About their life

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 National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death.

President of Kenya from 1964 to 1978

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Biography from the article Jomo Kenyatta on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.