Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (October 20, 1892?–August 22, 1978) was an African politician, the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of an independent Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan Nation.

Overseas

In 1929 the KCA sent Kenyatta to London to lobby for their views on Kĩkũyũ tribal land affairs. He wrote articles to British newspapers about the matter. He returned to Kenya in 1930 to lobby against female circumcision. In 1931 he went back to London and ended up enrolling in Woodbrooke Quaker College in Birmingham.

Related Topics:
1929 - London - 1930 - Female circumcision - 1931 - Woodbrooke Quaker College - Birmingham

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

In 1932–1933 he briefly studied economics in Moscow before his sponsor, the Trinidadian radical George Padmore, fell out with his Soviet hosts, and he was forced to move back to London. In 1934 he enrolled at University College London and in 1937 studied anthropology at the London School of Economics. During all this time he lobbied on Kĩkũyũ land affairs. He wrote Facing Mount Kenya in 1938 under his new name Jomo Kenyatta.

Related Topics:
1932 - 1933 - Economics - Moscow - Trinidad - George Padmore - Soviet - 1934 - University College London - 1937 - Anthropology - London School of Economics - 1938

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

During World War II, he worked in a British farm and as a film actor, appearing in the movie Sanders of the River along with Paul Robeson. He married Englishwoman Edna Clarke who gave birth to his son Peter Magana in 1943. He later left her.

Related Topics:
World War II - Paul Robeson - 1943

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~