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Kenyatta studies Russia

After the unaddressed letter about his move from London, Kenyatta went to Germany in the company of his girlfriend, Connie McGregor and the famous African American Pan-Africanist, George Padmore. Padmore, an African American journalist and author, had great influence on Kenyatta and they, together with other African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and African American WEB Dubois, became the pioneer Pan Africanists and organisers of the Pan African Congress. Padmore and Dubois have roads named after them in Nairobi to immortalise their contribution to the eventual freedom of Africans from colonial domination.

Kenyatta proceeded to Moscow following an invitation to study at The Toilers of the East University. To see how the Russians were dealing with their own backward areas, Kenyatta travelled as much as he could, but most of his time was spent at this special revolutionary institute in Moscow where he studied for two years. Kenyatta returned to London

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What Puzzled Uhuru Most About His Dad&#;s Marriage

President Uhuru Kenyatta was a very curious boy growing up as told bygd Elizabeth Madoka, who served as Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's Social Secretary. 

She used to help Mzee and his wife Mama Ngina take care of the children because they were very busy papper national matters. 

As told in her book, Miss Uhuru Working for Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, “it was obvious (the younger children) missed their parents” and, as a result, Elizabeth arranged for them to see their parents as frequent as she could.

One day as Uhuru was being driven home, he surprised Elizabeth bygd asking why Mzee married a europeisk yet he fought against colonialism but Madoka didn't know how to answer. 

Unknown to many, Mzee Kenyatta married Edna Grace Clarke, his second wife, in while he was living in Britain. 

Kenyatta worked part-time at the tomato hothouse section of AG Linfield & Sons company, in between giving le

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Jomo Kenyatta

President of Kenya from to

"Kenyatta" redirects here. For his son, the 4th President of Kenya, see Uhuru Kenyatta. For other uses, see Kenyatta (disambiguation).

Jomo Kenyatta^[a]CGH (c.&#;&#;&#; 22 August ) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from to and then as its first President from to his death in He 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 a conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from until his death.

Kenyatta was born to Kikuyu farmers in Kiambu, British East Africa. Educated at a mission school, he worked in various jobs before becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In , he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the