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. Kenyatta was born to Kikuyu farmers in Kiambu, British East Africa. View M7 Portfolio (final draft).. (1).docx from ARTS AND H SOCI 202 at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. [81], In his absence, female genital mutilation (FGM) had become a topic of strong debate in Kikuyu society. This was his initial contact with Europeans. He adopted the name of Jomo Kenyatta taking his first name from the Kikuyu word for "burning spear" and his last name from the masai word for the bead belt that he often wore.[2]. [129] Several other Africans in London criticized him for doing so, arguing that the film degraded black people. [194] A Luo anti-colonial activist, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was the first to publicly call for Kenyatta's release, an issue that gained growing support among Kenya's anti-colonialists. He has two sisters siblings Soiya Gecaga, . Born c.1893, Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, brought the light of independence from the British colonialists. [59] Its purpose was to help unify the Kikuyu and raise funds for the KCA. [214] The judge selected, Ransley Thacker, had recently retired from the Supreme Court of Kenya;[210] the government knew he would be sympathetic to their case and gave him 20,000 to oversee it. African exuberance and love of display found perfect expression in Kenyatta's flair alongside the dignity and respect due to 'His Excellency, the President, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta'. ", After the United Kingdom entered World War II in September 1939, Kenyatta and Stock moved to the Sussex village of Storrington. [58], In May 1928, the KCA launched a Kikuyu-language magazine, Mugwithania (roughly translated as "The Reconciler" or "The Unifier"), in which it published news, articles, and homilies. James. [315] Kenyatta also wanted to contain parliamentary opposition and at Kenyatta's prompting, in November 1964 KADU officially dissolved and its representatives joined KANU. [140] Utilising a functionalist framework,[141] he promoted the idea that traditional Kikuyu society had a cohesion and integrity that was better than anything offered by European colonialism. We don't want to be dominated by them. [171] He decided not to bring Ednawho was pregnant with a second child[172]with him, aware that if they joined him in Kenya their lives would be made very difficult by the colony's racial laws. [334] An East African Literature Bureau was created to publish the work of indigenous writers. [344] Relations with the Soviet Union were also strained; Kenyatta shut down the Lumumba Institutean educational organisation named after the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumbaon the basis that it was a front for Soviet influence in Kenya. [323] For instance, a May 1966 amendment gave the president the ability to order the detention of individuals without trial if he thought the security of the state was threatened. [72] There is no evidence that he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,[100] and one of his fellow students later characterised him as "the biggest reactionary I have ever met. [390], In part due to his advanced years, Kenyatta rarely traveled outside of Eastern Africa. In 1952, he was among the Kapenguria Six arrested and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising. The Anti-Slavery Society advanced him funds to pay off his debts and return to Kenya. [557] The criticisms that leftists like Odinga made of Kenyatta's leadership were similar to those that the intellectual Frantz Fanon had made of post-colonial leaders throughout Africa. [280], In 1962 he returned to London to attend one of the Lancaster House conferences. [424] The Luo increasingly rallied around the KPU,[425] which experienced localized violence that hindered its ability to campaign, although Kenyatta's government officially disavowed this violence. (divorced) (1 child) Grace Wanjiku (? Jomo married Edna, Grace Kenyatta in 1942, at age 48. 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). In 1938, he published an anthropological study of Kikuyu life before working as a farm labourer in Sussex during the Second World War. [53], It is likely that the KCA purchased a motorbike for Kenyatta,[52] which he used to travel around Kikuyuland and neighbouring areas inhabited by the Meru and Embu, helping to establish new KCA branches. His son Uhuru Kenyatta, who he fathered late in life, served as the fourth President of Kenya from 20132022. about by swifter communications and mass media which probe into and make familiar all the social patterns of our human family. [256] KANU campaigned on the issue of Kenyatta's detainment in the February 1961 election, where it gained a majority of votes. On Feb. 24, operations at NBO Terminal 2 will be suspended from 11:00-17:00. . [257] KANU nevertheless refused to form a government, which was instead created through a KADU-led coalition of smaller parties. [507] As President he collected a variety of expensive cars. [421], The new party was a direct challenge to Kenyatta's rule,[421] and he regarded it as a communist-inspired plot to oust him. [324] Seeking the support of Kenya's second largest ethnic group, the Luo, Kenyatta appointed the Luo Oginga Odinga as his vice president. We can fight in unity with the workers and toilers of the whole world, and for a Free Africa. [387] By Kenyatta's death, the majority of Kenyans had access to significantly better healthcare than they had had in the colonial period. [448] Other political figures who were critical of Kenyatta's administration, including Ronald Ngala and Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, were killed in incidents that many speculated were government assassinations. His children included President Uhuru Kenyatta, by his fourth and youngest wife, Ngina. [310], Disputes with Somalia over the Northern Frontier District (NFD) continued; for much of Kenyatta's rule, Somalia remained the major threat to his government. [314] Kenyatta was outraged and shaken by the mutiny. [231] Kenyatta's health had deteriorated in prison; manacles had caused problems for his feet and he had eczema across his body. He returned to Kenya in 1946 and became a school principal. [181] He was increasingly frustrated, andwithout the intellectual companionship he experienced in Britainfelt lonely. [125] This angered Ross and contributed to the breakdown of their friendship. [25] Having completed his apprenticeship to the carpenter, Kenyatta requested that the mission allow him to be an apprentice stonemason, but they refused. [250], By this point, it was widely accepted that Kenyan independence was inevitable, the British Empire having been dismantled throughout much of Asia and Macmillan having made his "Wind of Change" speech. Alternate titles: Johnstone Kamau, Kamau, son of Ngengi. [10] It was there that she died, and Kenyattawho was very fond of the younger Muigaitravelled to collect his infant half-brother. Jomo Kenyatta (n run 1891 n pi niin 22 Pnbt 1978) ee bny macbai ku keye ajuerwelbny. As a member of the Kikuyu people, he traveled to London in 1929 to protest the British governments recommendation that its East African territories be more closely united at the expense of Kikuyu interests. (~1889 - 22 August 1978) was the leader of Kenya from independence in 1963 to his death in 1978, serving first as Prime Minister (1963-64) and then as President (1964-78). His parents died while he was young, and he then moved to Muthiga to live with his grandfather where he enrolled in the Church of Scotland 's Thogoto mission school, converted to Christianity, and was baptized as Johnstone. [412] He argued that centralised control of the government was needed to deal with the growth in demands for local services and to assist quicker economic development. Skip to document. Kenyatta was the uncle of Ngethe Njoroge, Kenya's first representative to the United Nations and the great uncle of Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. [295] Kenya remained a monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. [547] In 2018, Maloba described him as "one of the legendary pioneers of modern African nationalism". [175] Kenyatta met with the new Governor of Kenya, Philip Euen Mitchell, and in March 1947 accepted a post on an African Land Settlement Board, holding the post for two years. Kenyatta's family tree is fascinating to behold. [302] Many radical voices in Kenya urged him to pursue the project;[303] in May 1964, Kenyatta rejected a back-benchers resolution calling for speedier federation. [2] Birth records were not then kept among the Kikuyu, and Kenyatta's date of birth is not known. [116] He enrolled at UCL as a student, studying an English course between January and July 1935 and then a phonetics course from October 1935 to June 1936. He was essentially a moderate trying to achieve the radical revolution of a nationalist victory in a colonialist society, and his ambivalence over many issues can best be explained by his need to contain or use his militantsand he had plenty of them. Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first prime minister and Uhuru's father, created a legacy that has helped his children reach positions of power. Kenyatta maintained himself in England by lecturing and working as a farm labourer, and he continued to produce political pamphlets publicizing the Kikuyu cause. [346] The session proposed a mixed economy with an important role for private capital,[347] with Kenyatta's government specifying that it would consider only nationalisation in instances where national security was at risk. Kenyatta's son Uhuru later also became president. [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. (1946-1950), Ngina Kenyattam. [455] This clique faced opposition from KANU back-benchers spearheaded by Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. [562] In other areas Kenyatta's government also faced criticism; it for instance made little progress in advancing women's rights in Kenya. [308] In a speech, Kenyatta described it as "the greatest day in Kenya's history and the happiest day in my life. [492] As leader of Kenya, Kenyatta published two collected volumes of his speeches: Harambee and Suffering Without Bitterness. Estate Duty Act. [278] Throughout Kenyatta's rule, many of these individuals remained out of work, unemployment being one of the most persistent problems facing his government. [60] Aware that Thuku had been exiled for his activism, Kenyatta's took a cautious approach to campaigning, and in Mugwithania he expressed support for the churches, district commissioners, and chiefs. He was not only older at 63 than all of . Husband of Ann Wanyoro Muigai; Private; Private; Esther Njoki Muigai; Private and 1 other. Kenyatta certainly knew how to appeal to African sentiments. [216] The prosecution failed to produce any strong evidence that Kenyatta or the other accused had any involvement in managing the Mau Mau. Before his death in 1979, Peter Muigai served as an Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs. [20], Kenyatta's academic progress was unremarkable, and in July 1912 he became an apprentice to the mission's carpenter. [344] In 1964, Kenyatta impounded a secret shipment of Chinese armaments that passed through Kenyan territory on its way to Uganda. [89] In Britain, he spent the summer attending an Independent Labour Party summer school and Fabian Society gatherings. [187] He was nevertheless aware that to achieve independence, KAU needed the support of other indigenous tribes and ethnic groups. I am currently a third year student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Statistics degree. [107], Kenyatta continued writing articles, reflecting Padmore's influence. Their wedding recorded in the certificate Dhiri offered the government took place on May 11, 1942, at the Chanctonbury registry office at Storrington in Sussex. His annual memorial is marked this week, but was turned into a family only affair last year. [476] Like other anti-colonialists, he believed that under colonialism, the human and natural resources of Africa had been used not for the benefit of Africa's population but for the enrichment of the colonisers and their European homelands. 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