[252] It invited representatives of Kenya's anti-colonial movement to discuss the transition at London's Lancaster House. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death. [518] Murray-Brown noted that Kenyatta could be "quite unscrupulous, even brutal" in using others to get what he wanted,[519] but he never displayed any physical cruelty or nihilism. [226] The others were made to break rocks in the hot sun but Kenyatta, because of his age, was instead appointed their cook, preparing a daily diet of beans and posho. His son Peter Muigai became an assistant minister of foreign affairs, and his cousin Ngethe Njoroge served as high commissioner to the United Kingdom. [208] Eventually, they charged him and five senior KAU members with masterminding the Mau Mau, a proscribed group. [328] The police and military structures were left largely intact. [330] Kenyatta's government nevertheless rejected the idea that the European and Asian minorities could be permitted dual citizenship, expecting these communities to offer total loyalty to the independent Kenyan state. Estate Duty Act. ", Kenyatta was an African nationalist,[475] and was committed to the belief that European colonial rule in Africa must end. [138] Featuring an introduction written by Malinowski,[139] the book reflected Kenyatta's desire to use anthropology as a weapon against colonialism. The business empire of Kenya's founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, has been moving from strength to strength steered by younger family members who are now part of the business. Kenyatta left the UK barely two years after Magana was born and returned to Kenya where he married his third wife, Grace Wanjiku, Senior Chief Koinange's daughter and sister to Mbiyu Koinange. [567] The Kenyatta family is among Kenya's biggest landowners. [15] While there, Kenyatta stayed at the small boarding school, where he learnt stories from the Bible,[16] and was taught to read and write in English. That is why we reject Communism. [46] When the KCA wrote to Beauttah and asked him to travel to London as their representative, he declined, but recommended that Kenyattawho had a good command of Englishgo in his place. Jomo Kenyatta with his sons Uhuru and Muhoho (right). [388] This improved medical care had resulted in declining mortality rates while birth rates remained high, resulting in a rapidly growing population; from 1962 to 1979, Kenya's population grew by just under 4% a year, the highest rate in the world at the time. Explore Kenya on AnswersAfrica.com, find out all about your favorite celebrities and indepth biographies of notable people including trending stories, quick facts, and updates. She is married in Makueni County and little is known about her. [306], A celebration to mark independence was held in a specially constructed stadium on 12 December 1963. [451] He suffered from gout and heart problems, all of which he sought to keep hidden from the public. Omissions? [414] Opposition to Kenyatta's government grew, particularly following the assassination of Pio Pinto in February 1965. [563], Assensoh argued that in his life story, Kenyatta had a great deal in common with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. [423] This resulted in the election of June 1966. His government comprised members of various ethnic groups in order to calm ethnic tensions. [157] He attempted to join the local Home Guard, but was turned down. [129] To earn money, he worked as one of 250 black extras in the film Sanders of the River, filmed at Shepperton Studios in Autumn 1934. [426] KANU retained the support of all national newspapers and the government-owned radio and television stations. [493] The material included in these publications was carefully selected so as to avoid mention of the radicalism he exhibited while in Britain during the 1930s. [228] In April 1954, they had been joined by a captured Mau Mau commander, Waruhiu Itote; Kenyatta befriended him, and gave him English lessons. [558] Drawing upon Marxist theory, Jay O'Brien, for instance, argued that Kenyatta had come to power "as a representative of a would-be bourgeoisie", a coalition of "relatively privileged petty bourgeois African elements" who wanted simply to replace the British colonialists and "Asian commercial bourgeoisie" with themselves. [353] To this end it emphasised social welfare schemes over traditional industrial institutions,[353] and in 1965 transformed the Kenya Federation of Labour into the Central Organization of Trade (COT), a body which came under strong government influence. Wagky wanauita kenyaata.. Maisha. [32], In 1917, Kenyatta moved to Narok, where he was involved in transporting livestock to Nairobi,[31] before relocating to Nairobi to work in a store selling farming and engineering equipment. [183] In January 1952, KAU members formed a secret Central Committee devoted to direct action, formulated along a cell structure. [83] As Secretary of the KCA, Kenyatta met with church representatives. ", Kenyatta was a polygamist. (1942-1946), Grace Wahum. [5], Edna, who died in 1995 at the age of 86, was Kenyatta's second wife. James. [445] With the organised opposition eliminated, from 1969, Kenya was once again a de facto one-party state. [106] The British authorities were highly suspicious of Kenyatta's time in the Soviet Union, suspecting that he was a Marxist-Leninist, and following his return the MI5 intelligence service intercepted and read all his mail. [135] In October 1938, he gave a talk to the Manchester Fabian Society in which he described British colonial policy as fascism and compared the treatment of indigenous people in East Africa to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. [57], After the KCA raised sufficient funds, in February 1929 Kenyatta sailed from Mombasa to Britain. [268] In August he met with Renison at Kiambu,[269] and was interviewed by the BBC's Face to Face. [131], In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia (Abyssinia), incensing Kenyatta and other Africans in London; he became the honorary secretary of the International African Friends of Abyssinia, a group established by Padmore and C. L. R. [137], Kenyatta assembled the essays on Kikuyu society written for Malinowski's class and published them as Facing Mount Kenya in 1938. [529] While in London, Kenyatta had taken an interest in the atheist speakers at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park,[530] while an Irish Muslim friend had unsuccessfully urged Kenyatta to convert to Islam. B. Assensoh later suggested that the authorities "knew very well" that Kenyatta was not involved in the Mau Mau, but that they were nevertheless committed to silencing his calls for independence. Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi "" his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District "" one of five administrative districts in the Central Highlands of British East Africa (now Kenya). . He married his fourth wife in 1951. Research Methodology jomo kenyatta university of agriculture and technology unit name: research methodology unit code: hbaf 3112 instructor: mr. douglas rosana. [328] White Kenyans were left in senior positions within the judiciary, civil service, and parliament,[329] with the white Kenyans Bruce Mackenzie and Humphrey Slade being among Kenyatta's top officials. During the 1930s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East, University College London, and the London School of Economics. Authorities will suspend operations at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) Terminal 2 on Feb. 24 and 26 amid the visit and later departure of US First Lady Jill Biden. Kenya's 1st President Jomo Kenyatta Arrested On This Day In 1953. During his presidency, he was given the honorary title of Mzee and lauded as the Father of the Nation, securing support from both the black majority and the white minority with his message of reconciliation. [297] In 1964, Oxford University Press published a collection of Kenyatta's speeches under the title of Harambee!. [55] In June, he was part of a KCA team which appeared before a select committee of the Kenyan Legislative Council to express concerns about the recent introduction of Land Boards. (1946-1950), Ngina Kenyattam. Beth Mugo has been a nominated senator under the Jubilee Alliance (Ruling Alliance in Kenya) since 2013 and has been known to strongly support her cousin (President Uhuru Kenyatta). Kenyatta enacted capitalist economic policies, and for the first 20 years of its independence Kenya had one of the fastest-growing economies on the continent. [56] Also in February, his daughter, Wambui Margaret, was born. Entry into Politics. [2] They lived in a homestead near River Thiririka, where they raised crops and bred sheep and goats. All was well until the relationship between the elder Kenyatta and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga went into a nosedive. [243] Calls for his release came from the Chinese government,[244] India's Nehru,[245] and Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere. [227] In 1955, P. de Robeck became the District Officer, after which Kenyatta and the other inmates were treated more leniently. [187] He was nevertheless aware that to achieve independence, KAU needed the support of other indigenous tribes and ethnic groups. [295] Kenya remained a monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. [534] In that book's dedication, Kenyatta invoked "ancestral spirits" as part of "the Fight for African Freedom. Influenced by his friend George Padmore, he embraced anti-colonialist and Pan-African ideas, co-organising the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester. [409], Kenyatta made clear his desire for Kenya to become a one-party state, regarding this as a better expression of national unity than a multi-party system. His father, then uncle, then mother died when he was young . [240] Berman and Lonsdale described his life as being preoccupied with "a search for the reconciliation of the Western modernity he embraced and an equally valued Kikuyuness he could not discard". [515] Gikandi argued that Kenyatta's "identification with Englishness was much more profound than both his friends and enemies have been willing to admit". [387] By Kenyatta's death, the majority of Kenyans had access to significantly better healthcare than they had had in the colonial period. Photo: State House, Kenya. [66] In the city, Kenyatta met with W. McGregor Ross at the Royal Empire Society, Ross briefing him on how to deal with the Colonial Office. [531] The Israeli diplomat Asher Naim visited him in this period, noting that although Kenyatta was "not a religious man, he was appreciative of the Bible". [87], Between 1935 and 1937, Kenyatta worked as a linguistic informant for the Phonetics Department at University College London (UCL); his Kikuyu voice recordings assisted Lilias Armstrong's production of The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Children of Jomo Kenyatta and Grace Wahu Peter Muigai Kenyatta 1920 Margaret Wambui Kenyatta 1928 Son of Jomo Kenyatta and Edna Grace Clarke Peter Magana Kenyatta 1943 Daughter of Jomo Kenyatta and Grace Wanjiku Jane Wambui Kenyatta 1950 Children of Jomo Kenyatta and Ngina Muhoho Christine Wambui Kenyatta 1952 Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta 1961 [361] His family used his presidential position to circumvent legal or administrative obstacles to acquiring property. [97] There he was taught arithmetic, geography, natural science, and political economy, as well as Marxist-Leninist doctrine and the history of the Marxist-Leninist movement. [132] When Ethiopia's monarch Haile Selassie fled to London in exile, Kenyatta personally welcomed him at Waterloo station. [163] While he was absent, Kenya's authorities banned the KCA in 1940. Peter Mugai was born. He concluded by saying that the lack of these measures must inevitably result in a dangerous explosionthe one thing all sane men wish to avoid.. [84] The meeting ended without compromise, and John Arthurthe head of the Church of Scotland in Kenyalater expelled Kenyatta from the church, citing what he deemed dishonesty during the debate. [20], Kenyatta's academic progress was unremarkable, and in July 1912 he became an apprentice to the mission's carpenter. She bore him another child, but later died in childbirth. [282] It was agreed that a temporary coalition government would be established until independence, several KANU politicians being given ministerial posts. [374] Kenyatta was concerned by this, and promoted the reversal of this rural-to-urban migration, but in this was unsuccessful. Peter Muigai Kenyatta. [240] Kenyatta spent two years in Lodwar. Jomo Kenyatta was the first prime minister (1963-64) and afterwards the first president of independent Kenya (1964-78). [271], Kenyatta traveled elsewhere in Africa, visiting Tanganyika in October 1961 and Ethiopia in November at the invitation of their governments. [494], Kenyatta had been exposed to Marxist-Leninist ideas through his friendship with Padmore and the time spent in the Soviet Union,[495] but had also been exposed to Western forms of liberal democratic government through his many years in Britain. [387] In the short-term, its emphasis was on increasing the overall number of doctors and registered nurses while decreasing the number of expatriates in those positions. [446] The December 1969 general electionin which all candidates were from the ruling KANUresulted in Kenyatta's government remaining in power, but many members of his government lost their parliamentary seats to rivals from within the party. [95] In late 1932, he joined Padmore in Germany. [358] Kenyatta was not sympathetic to those leaving: "Kenya's identity as an African country is not going to be altered by the whims and malaises of groups of uncommitted individuals. [505] He adopted his surname, "Kenyatta", after the name of a beaded belt he often wore in early life. The website is a work-in-progress and new information will be regularly added as it's compiled. [291] An election was scheduled for May, with self-government in June, followed by full independence in December. A member of the Kikuyu people, Kenyatta was born with the name Kamau in the village of Ngenda. 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