Jomo Kenyatta

Hyslop Ipu an ineffectual bureaucrat from Coast Province has just been pushed out as Comptroller of State Houses the equivalent of the US Chief of Staff and replaced by the Mount Kenya group’s Professor Nick Wanjohi formerly Vice- Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and one of the President’s faithful retainers...

The last time Kenya’s three most senior politicians left the country was in April 1964 when Jomo Kenyatta visited the Commonwealth Heads of Goverment Meeting in London for his first (and last) time...

This call made in the presence of Uhuru Kenyatta son of Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta would upset ethnic political calculations...

In the 1970s the Jomo Kenyatta government taking advantage of the Africanisation programme to raise Africans' stake in the economy had encouraged the setting up of investment vehicles such as Heri Ltd...

Some had begun to compare him to Charles Njonjo the veteran of both the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi presidencies who during 20 years had built a political network...

One top contender for Murage’s job is Nicholas Wanjohi Vice-Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology who was conspicuous at Kibaki’s hurried swearing in at State House on 30 December...

Forty years ago founding President Jomo Kenyatta began settling landless Kikuyu families in the 'White Highlands'...

Power has been handed peacefully from one to another from Jomo Kenyatta to Moi from Moi to Kibaki: all were at the Independence negotiations in Lancaster House in London in 1960-63...

The Odinga family: After patriarch Oginga Odinga's legendary battles with Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta the Odinga family has been steeped in opposition politics...

Kenya African National Union (KANU) the ruling party under Presidents Jomo Kenyatta (1963-78) and Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (1978-2002)...

The son of founding President Jomo Kenyatta is once more marching in step with his mentor Daniel arap Moi...