** Sir Moilin Jean Ah-Chuen 朱梅麟 ( 1909-1991 ; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ; Hakka pronunciation: Chu Moi Lin ), First Chinese member, Legislative Council, 1949 ; Minister of Local Government, 1967 – 1976 ; Second Hakka after Sun Yatsen to have his portrait printed on the bills of a country's currency

As a member of a minority tribe Moi was also an acceptable compromise for the major tribes.

As the inquiry has progressed, Moi, his two sons, Philip and Gideon ( now a member of Parliament ), and his daughter June, as well as a host of high-ranking Kenyans, have been implicated.

When it became apparent that Maathai was going to win the election, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a member organization which represented a majority of Kenya's rural women and whose leader was close to arap Moi, withdrew from the NCWK.

By 1986, Moi had concentrated all the power-and most of its attendant economic benefits-into the hands of his Kalenjin tribe and of a handful of allies from minority groups.

In the military ( and also the Police and GSU ), there is a virtual monopoly of President Moi ’ s ethnic group, the Kalenjin, in the top brass.

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.

Moi ruled using a strategic mixture of ethnic favoritism, state repression, and marginalization of opposition forces.

Moi sponsored irregular army units that attacked the Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu communities, and he disclaimed responsibility by assigning the violence to ethnic clashes arising from a land dispute.

Moi skillfully exploited Kenya's mix of ethnic tensions in these contests, with the ever present fear of the smaller tribes being dominated by the larger tribes.

A group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants then quit KANU in protest after being overlooked by outgoing President Moi when Moi had founding Father Jomo Kenyatta's son, Uhuru Kenyatta, nominated to be the KANU presidential candidate, and hurriedly formed the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ).

The two formed the folk group Toi et Moi.

Ruto was Organising Secretary of Youth for Kanu ' 92 ( YK92 ), a group that was formed to drum up support for President Daniel arap Moi in the 1992 election.

During the 1990s, the group had migrated into Nairobi with the acceptance of the government under Daniel arap Moi and began to dominate the matatu ( private minibus taxi ) industry.

Once regarded as the world's " most optimistic ," Kibaki's regime quickly lost much of its power because it became too closely linked with the discredited Moi forces.

Moi objects to what she sees as an essentialist position – that is, she objects to any determination of identity based on gender.

At that time Kenya had received much foreign aid, and the country was accepted as being well governed with Moi as a legitimate leader and firmly in charge.

Many attributed Kenyatta's defeat to his association with the retiring President Moi, whose long rule was widely regarded as hopelessly corrupt and ineffectual.

* Moi, Toril.

President Daniel Moi of Kenya issued a decree against it in December 2001.

Kenyatta was succeeded by Daniel arap Moi, who ruled until 2002.

Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-party status of Kenya into a de-jure status during the 1980s, but with the end of the Cold War, the practices of political repression and torture which had been " overlooked " by the Western powers as necessary evils in the effort to contain communism were no longer tolerated.

Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador Smith Hempstone, to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991.

Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were overshadowed by political killings on both sides.

At Kenyatta's death ( August 22, 1978 ), Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President.

On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee.

Kenyatta died in 1978 and was succeeded by Daniel Arap Moi ( b. 1924 ) who ruled as President 1978-2002.

On August 1, 1982 lower-level air force personnel, led by Senior Private Grade-I Hezekiah Ochuka and backed by university students, attempted a coup d ' état to oust Moi.

Moi's closest associate was implicated in Ouko's murder ; Moi dismissed him but not before his remaining Luo support had evaporated.

Germany recalled its ambassador to protest the " increasing brutality " of the regime, and foreign donors pressed Moi to allow other parties, which was done in December 1991 through a constitutional amendment.

Obstructing the press both before and after the 1992 elections, Moi continually maintained that multiparty politics would only promote tribal conflict.

Under Moi, the apparatus of clientage and control was underpinned by the system of powerful provincial commissioners, each with a bureaucratic hierarchy based on chiefs ( and their police ) that was more powerful than the elected members of parliament.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

Beginning in 1998, Moi engaged in a carefully calculated strategy to manage the presidential succession in his and his party's favor.

Faced with the challenge of a new, multiethnic political coalition, Moi shifted the axis of the 2002 electoral contest from ethnicity to the politics of generational conflict.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

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

However, social inequalities also increased ; the economic benefits went disproportionately to the already well-off ( especially to the Kikuyu ); corruption reached new depths, matching some of the excesses of the Moi years.

Chelimo, who was born in the Marakwet region of Kenya, was a member of the Kalenjin tribe ( known by some as the " running tribe ").

One well known member of this religious and ethnic community is Saint Abo, martyr and the patron saint of Tbilisi, Georgia.

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

Samuel Kanyon Doe ( 1951 – 1990 ) was a member of the small ethnic group of the Krahn, a master sergeant in the Liberian army, and trained by U. S. Army Special Forces.

Twenty three candidates stood for the presidential election, with George Weah, internationally famous footballer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and member of the Kru ethnic group, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former World Bank economist and finance minister, Harvard-trained economist and of mixed Americo-Liberian and indigenous descent.

He was a member of the Georgian Mingrelian ethnic group and grew up in a Georgian Orthodox family.

He was fired in 1983 for cracking " an ethnic joke about a member of the city council out there who was of Asian descent, and he refused to apologize ".

Sir Aneerood Jugnauth thus assumed the office of PM for the first 3 years and, in 2003, Bérenger became PM while Jugnauth became President, a post usually reserved for a member of a minority ethnic group.

Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.

Like Stevens, Momoh was also a member of the minority Limba ethnic group.

The crisis in Greek – Albanian relations reached its peak in late August 1994, when an Albanian court sentenced five members ( a sixth member was added later ) of the ethnic Greek political party Omonia to prison terms on charges of undermining the Albanian state.

The best example of this, and the one that Portes mentions, is the donation of a scholarship to a member of the same ethnic group.

Lumumba was born in Onalua in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai province of the Belgian Congo, a member of the Tetela ethnic group.

Though speaking Greek remained the touchstone of whether one was a member of civilized culture or not, the ethnic diversification of the Hellenistic world is clear.

A present-day example can be found in the Dewan Negara ( Senate ) of Malaysia, which has a standing order prohibiting any member from proposing the repeal of those articles of the Malaysian Constitution that reserve certain privileges for Bumiputra ( ethnic Malay ) citizens.

The indigenous name for a member of the Chukchi ethnic group as a whole is Luoravetlan ( literally ' true person ').

The answer of interest to the questioner is probably whether the person considers themselves to be a member of a particular ethnic subdivision of society, or are considered a member of a such a group by others.

Mobutu, a member of the Ngbandi ethnic group, was born in Lisala, Belgian Congo.

Nyabire, a member of the Kakwa ethnic group, converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam in 1910 and changed his name to Amin Dada.

A Scot is a member of an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland, derived from the Latin name of Irish raiders, the Scoti.

Finns ) is commonly used to refer to a member of the Finn ethnic group or a citizen of Finland.

The Government's focus then switched from abolition to reform and, in particular, reform of the much-criticised " secret soundings " of Judges and other establishment legal figures upon which the old system was based, which was said to be inappropriate and unfair given the size of the modern profession, a possible source of improper Government patronage ( since the final recommendations were made by the Lord Chancellor, who is a member of the Government ), and discriminatory against part-time workers ( especially women ) and ethnic minorities.

In the 1841 general election Sudbury became the first place in the UK to elect a member of an ethnic minority to parliament, with David Dye Sombre, the son of an Indian queen, winning the seat.

Tesuque Pueblo is a member of the Eight Northern Pueblos, and the pueblo people are from the Tewa ethnic group of Native Americans who speak the Tewa language.