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Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta

Date of Birth: c. 1891
Died: 22/08/1978


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Bye-election fever

Moi Junior aims to follow Uhuru Kenyatta into State House much as his father succeeded Uhuru's's father Founding President Jomo Kenyatta...


Uhuru's frequent flyer card

Unlike his father founding President Jomo Kenyatta who flew outside Kenya only twice during his 15-year rule Uhuru Kenyatta's foreign travel now exceeds that of his predecessor Mwai Kibaki in his ten years in office...

As son of Jomo Kenyatta he enjoys instant name recognition...


The opposition fall out

Namwaba and the local Senator controversial former Attorney General Amos Wako concurred that the impoverishment of their region dates back to the era of Uhuru's father founding President Jomo Kenyatta in 1963 and that successive governments have continued it ever since...

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Bouquets and brickbats

Planted just days before Air Force One touched down at Jomo Kenyatta Airport the expensive turf barely had a chance to grow a slightly unfortunate metaphor...


Confused response to terror attacks

Established by Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta in the early 1970s as a government settlement scheme on the ancestral lands of two small coastal tribes the Amu and the Bajuni the government relocated landless almost exclusively Kikuyu people from central Kenya to the new settlement...


Kenyatta mulls nuclear option

Before he was elected Kenyatta drew parallels between the ICC case against him and the detention of his father Founding President Jomo Kenyatta by the British colonial authorities on trumped up charges during the Independence struggle of the 1950s...

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The warnings before Westgate

Also since the major fire at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 7 August security controls on incoming travellers have been less rigorous than before...


The closest of shaves

(His father Founding President Jomo Kenyatta sabotaged the first majimbo regionalist constitution after Independence...


Holding their breath

The presidential contest will pit Prime Minister Raila Oginga Odinga against Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta who is wanted by the International Criminal Court and is the son of founding President Jomo Kenyatta...


A race to the bottom

Undeterred – and possessed of a vast fortune amassed mostly during the presidency of the late Jomo Kenyatta (1963-1978) – the powerful Kenyatta family has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to win Uhuru the presidency...

The creation of 47 semi-autonomous counties under the constitution of August 2010 could well reopen questions about land-grabs during the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi eras which mainly benefitted families close to them...


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