Jomo Kenyatta Quotes


Unity cannot be taken for granted.


Citations

Kenyatta, Jomo. Suffering Without Bitterness: The Founding of the Kenya Nation. East African Publishing House, 1968.

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“Factions” was the word for Political Parties then. Henry, George Washington and other founding fathers were opposed to political parties, while Madison and others thought they needed to controlled. Jefferson thought parties to be important. So there was no uniform consensus among the Founding Fathers. This has his last public speech before his death.


Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta
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  • Died: August 22, 1978
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Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death.