President jomo kenyatta biography of donald

Elected in and named president in , Jomo Kenyatta was the first president of Kenya and is still today often referred to as mzee (the Father of the Nation).

Kenyatta was born under the name Kamau to Kikuyu parents in the town of Gatundu, Kiambu district around (the exact date of his birth is unknown).

Jomo kenyatta cause of death

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.

Kenyatta left Thogoto in and became a clerk and water-meter reader with the Municipal Court of Nairobi.

He became involved with the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) in and resigned from his government post that same year. In Kenyatta became secretary general of the KCA and editor of its vernacular Kikuyu newspaper, Muiguithania (The Reconciler).

Appointed as an emissary to England by the KCA, Kenyatta made presentations to the Colonial Office in England in and