It was ruled as a de-facto single-party state by the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by Jomo Kenyatta during 1963 to 1978.

Kenya now achieved internal self-government with Jomo Kenyatta as its first prime minister.

Voters rejected the Kenya African National Union's ( KANU ) presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, the handpicked candidate of outgoing president Moi.

* 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.

* Kenyatta Day ( Kenya )

This led to concentration camps in Kenya, the retreat of the British, and the election of Jomo Kenyatta as leader of Kenya.

* December 12 – Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.

* August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.

Steele had carried out secret talks with Jomo Kenyatta ahead of the British withdrawal from Kenya.

Burning Spear was originally Rodney's group, named after a military award given by Jomo Kenyatta, the first Prime Minister and President of an independent Kenya, and including bass singer Rupert Willington.

* Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya – lived at 95 Cambridge Street

In 1960 he founded the Kenya African Democratic Union ( KADU ) with Ronald Ngala to challenge the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) led by Jomo Kenyatta.

After Kenya gained independence on 12 December 1963, Kenyatta convinced Moi that KADU and KANU should be merged to complete the process of decolonisation.

KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the tribes so-called KAMATUSA ( an acronym for Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu ), against the dominance of the larger Luo ( Kenya ) and Kĩkũyũ tribes that comprised the majority of KANU's membership ( Kenyatta himself being a Kĩkũyũ ).

It steered Kenya to side with the west during the cold war, with both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi using apparent links to the Soviet Union as pretexts to crush political dissent.

When Daniel arap Moi succeeded Jomo Kenyatta as President of Kenya in 1978, Kibaki was elevated to Vice Presidency, and kept the Finance portfolio until Moi changed his ministerial portfolio from Finance to Home Affairs in 1982.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

Kenya is also much more democratic and freer in the Kibaki era than it was during the Kenyatta and Moi eras.

He has also been accused of ruling with a small group of his elderly peers, mainly from the educated side of the Kikuyu elite that emerged in the Kenyatta years, usually referred to as the " Kitchen Cabinet " or the " Mount Kenya Mafia ".

Jomo Kenyatta < sup > pron .</ sup > ( 1894 – 22 August 1978 ) served as the first Prime Minister ( 1963 – 1964 ) and President ( 1964 – 1978 ) of Kenya.

In Kenya, Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi's main street and main streets in many Kenyan cities and towns, numerous schools, two Universities ( Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology ), the country's main referral hospital, markets, and housing estates are named after him.

* Sanjay Shah, a British Overseas citizen passport holder, spent the 13 months living in the duty free section of Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta airport, petitioning for full British Citizenship.

Warburg brought out Padmore's Africa and World Peace and books by both Kenyatta and James.

Following Kenya's independence in 1963, the first Prime Minister, and later first President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta adopted " Harambee " as a concept of pulling the country together to build a new nation.

By contrast, presidents Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, and the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) initially refused to accept the legitimacy of the new military government.

' Time Magazine ' reported that, " Thanks to a government cost-cutting program aimed at saving taxpayers some $ 27 million, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta announced this summer that government ministers, along with assistant ministers and permanent secretaries, must turn in their ubiquitous Mercedes-Benz for Volkswagen Passats, which not only cost about two-thirds the price of a new Benz in Kenya, but are, says the government, cheaper to run and maintain.

In 1980, a portrait of Daniel arap Moi replaced Kenyatta until 2005, when the central bank introduced a new coin series that restored the portrait of Kenyatta.

A new series of notes was then introduced on which Kenyatta reappeared with denominations of 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 shilling.

In the book, as a period of unrest within the prison begins, the character ' Kenyatta ' gives a speech closely mirroring the Fortean Times transcript of the Southern Television interruption:

More significantly, an informal defence arrangement with Britain reassured Kenyatta that he could rely on direct British military support in the event of an army mutiny or attempted coup.

In 1945, with other prominent African nationalist figures, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Kenyatta helped organise the fifth Pan-African Congress held in Britain.

* Kenya: Kenyatta launched a " willing buyer-willing seller " based land reform program in the 1960s, funded by Britain, the former colonial power.

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, formerly called Embakasi Airport and Nairobi International Airport, is Kenya's largest aviation facility, and the busiest airport in East Africa.

Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau wa Ngengi to parents Ngengi wa Muigai and Wambui in the village of Gatundu, in British East Africa ( now Kenya ), a member of the Kikuyu.

Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, as he was popularly known, was an important and influential statesman in Africa.

As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s -- among them James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams -- saw publishing as a strategy for political change.

The airline is the largest and oldest privately owned in East Africa, based at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.

Webster also spent time in prison for knocking Jomo Kenyatta to the ground outside the London Hilton hotel, for helping to organise the paramilitary organisation Spearhead, and was convicted under the 1936 Public Order Act.

With an eye on the fertile lands of the rift valley populated by members of Moi's Kalenjin tribe, Kenyatta secured their support by first promoting Moi to Minister for Home Affairs in 1964, and then to vice-president in 1967.

With the death of JM Kariuki and the scaring of Mwai Kibaki from the Kenyatta succession yarn around 1976, Gema insiders ’ vow of preventing the presidential standard from crossing River Chania had sort of come to pass as President Moi took over the reigns of power.

Primarily, the campus caters for the needs of students within the city center of Nairobi. With the increasing demand for education among the working population, Kenyatta University has greatly helped to bleach the gap between demand and supply for higher education services in Nairobi city and its environs.