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List Of Kenyans
The following list gives a categorised overview of notable people from Kenya. Pre-colonial leaders * Koitalel Arap Samoei * Mekatilili Wa Menza * Nabongo Mumia *Waiyaki Wa Hinga Anti-colonial activists * Bildad Kaggia * Dedan Kimathi * Dennis Akumu * Elijah Omolo Agar * Esau Khamati Oriedo * Fitz Remedios Santana de Souza * Fred Kubai * Harry Thuku * Jaramogi Oginga Odinga * John Keen (Kenya politician) * Jomo Kenyatta * Joseph Murumbi * J.M. Kariuki * Kung'u Karumba * Makhan Singh (Kenyan trade unionist) * Martin Shikuku * Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru * Masinde Muliro * Musa Mwariama * Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo * Paul Ngei * Pio Gama Pinto * Ramogi Achieng Oneko * Stanley Mathenge * Tom Mboya * Wambui Otieno * Waruhiu Itote Politicians * Moody Awori, Vice President, August, 2003–December 2007 * Nicholas Biwott, Member of Parliament, former Cabinet Ministère * Cyrus Jirongo * Josephat Karanja, Vice President 1988–1989 * J. M. Kariuki, assassinated 1975 * Uhuru Kenyatta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Joseph Murumbi
Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi (18 June 1911 – 22 June 1990) was a Kenyan politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya from 1964 to 1966, and its second Vice-President between May and December 1966. Early life He was born Joseph Murumbi-Zuzarte. He was the illegitimate son of a Goan trader, Peter Nicholas Zuzarte, by the daughter of a Maasai medicine man. His parents broke up when he was a toddler. His father married a Goan widow named Ezalda Clara Albuquerque, who already had nine children. He was then sent away to India for his schooling at the age of six. He went to Good Shepherd Convent School and then St. Joseph's High School, both in Bangalore. He completed his schooling at St. Pancras European Boys High School in Bellary. Political career After returning to Kenya from England where he had worked as a translator for the Moroccan Embassy in London, Murumbi became a member of the Kenya African Union political party, amidst a political ferment in East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Mboya
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya (15August 19305July 1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, independence activist, and statesman. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.Kenya Human Rights Commission"An evening with Tom Mboya" 2006. He led the negotiations for independence at the Lancaster House Conferences and was instrumental in the formation of Kenya's independence party – the Kenya African National Union (KANU) – where he served as its first Secretary-General. He laid the foundation for Kenya's capitalist and mixed economy policies at the height of the Cold War and set up several of the country's key labour institutions. Mboya's intelligence, charm, leadership, and oratory skills won him admiration from all over the world. He gave speeches, participated in debates and interviews across the world in favour of Kenya's independence from British colonial rule. He also spoke at several rallies in the goodwill of the Civil Rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Mathenge
Stanley Mathenge wa Mirugi (born c. 1919 in Mahiga, Nyeri District) was a Mau Mau military leader. Background Before the Mau Mau freedom struggle, he had fought in Burma. Later he became the leader of the Forty Group, an organisation supporting the Kenya African Union (KAU). He also founded the ''Kenya Riigi'', a group of courageous fighters. Mathenge believed in traditional Kikuyu religion.Marshall S. CloughMau Mau memoirs: history, memory, and politicsLynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. In May 1953 he became the leader of the newly formed Mau Mau military unit ''Nyeri District Council and Army''. His rivalry with field marshal Dedan Kimathi harmed integrity of the Mau Mau movement. Disappearance He disappeared in 1955 and was later reported to be allegedly living in Ethiopia. Mathenge left with his battalion to Ethiopia where he is said to have died in 2016. His wife Muthoni is still alive and resides in Mweiga, Nyeri. One prevailing conspiracy theory is that he was killed in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramogi Achieng Oneko
Ramogi Achieng Oneko (1920–2007) was a Kenyan freedom fighter and a politician. In Kenya, he is considered as a national hero. He was born in Tieng'a village in Uyoma sub-location in Bondo District in 1920 and educated at Maseno School. Detention Oneko was one of the six freedom fighters arrested by the British colonial government in Kapenguria in 1952. Other members of the group, known as "Kapenguria Six" were Jomo Kenyatta, Paul Ngei, Bildad Kaggia, Kungu Karumba and Fred Kubai. They were arrested for allegedly being linked with the Mau Mau rebellion movement.The Standard: 16 June 2007: Oneko was charged as "Accused No.3." After they were convicted, all six appealed the conviction. The appeal judges found that Oneko had largely been convicted on the weight of an KAU meeting he had attended. The statements at the meeting were mostly in Kikuyu, which he did not understand at the time. Although the judges acquitted him of the charges on 15 January 1954, he was still held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Gama Pinto
Pio Gama Pinto (31 March 1927 – 24 February 1965) was a Kenyan journalist, politician and freedom fighter. He was a socialist leader who dedicated his life to the liberation of the Kenyan people and became independent Kenya's first martyr in 1965. Early years Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March 1927 to a Kenyan Asian family of Konkani Goan Catholic descent. Born to immigrant Goan parents hailing from the Indian Overseas Province of Goa, his father was an official in the colonial government of Kenya while his mother was a housewife. At age eight, he was sent to India for his education and spent the next nine years there, passing his matriculation exams at St. Joseph's High School, Arpora and then studying science at Karnatak College, Dharwar for two years before joining the Indian Air Force in 1944 as an apprentice ground engineer. He then took up a job in the Posts and Telegraph office in Bombay, participated in a general strike and became a founding member of the Goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ngei
The Honourable Paul Joseph Ngei (18 October 1923 – 15 August 2004) was a Kenyan politician who was imprisoned for his role in the anti-colonial movement, but who went on to hold several government ministerial positions after Kenya became independent. Early life Ngei was born at Kiima Kimwe near Machakos township, Kenya. He was the grandson of paramount chief Masaku after whom the town and the district were named. The family moved from Kiima Kimwe to a new settlement at Kangundo Division in a small village called Mbilini in 1929. This was a mountainous area with good rainfall for agriculture. His father had been converted to Christianity by the Africa Inland Mission. Ngei attended primary school at DEB Kangundo from 1932, intermediate school at Kwa Mating'i in Machakos town from 1936, and Alliance High School in Kiambu District. He then joined the army in the King's African Rifles (KAR) for a four-year stint. After that he enrolled at Makerere University in Uganda as a journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo
Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo, also known as George Philip Ochola (1930–1990) was a Kenyan trade unionist and Member of Parliament for Ndhiwa, South Nyanza, Kenya.Makers of a nation. Ochola Mak'Anyengo the men and women in Kenya's history. DVD, Video Disc. A Nation Media Group/Kenya History & Biographies Co. Ltd. co-production ; written, produced and directed by Hilary Ng'weno. Available From: https://iucat.iu.edu/iub/13727400 He was involved in the fight for Kenya's independence and was a beneficiary of the Mboya-Kennedy airlifts.Kenya, the National Epic: From the Pages of Drum Magazine By Garth Bundeh and James R. A. Bailey East African Publishers, 1993Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman. St. Martin's Press (15 September 2009)Kenyan Student Airlifts to America 1959-1961: An Educational Odyssey By Stephens, Robert F. East African Educational Publishers (Jan, 2014) Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa Mwariama
Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, EBS (1928–1989) was a Kenyan revolutionary leader of the Mau Mau in Meru and the highest-ranking Mau Mau leader who survived the war without being killed or captured. Together with Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, they comprised the core Mau Mau leadership. Mwariama was the highest ranking leader among the Meru side of the uprising. By the time he left his bases in Mount Kenya and Nyambene Hills on the equator, he had about 2,000 fighters who had survived Operation Anvil in Kenya. He was decorated with the national Order of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) after independence. The most famous photograph of him is with President Jomo Kenyatta on attainment of Uhuru (independence) in 1963, and most of the postwar Mau Mau video clips show him inspecting a Mau Mau guard of honour or with President Jomo Kenyatta. Early life M'Kiribua M'Muchiri, or Mbaringu, or Muthigari Mugathe, or Nkumbuku, or Field Marshall Mwariama was born in 1928 at Muthara in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masinde Muliro
Henry Pius Masinde Muliro (June 30, 1922 – August 14, 1992) was a Kenyan politician from the Bukusu sub-tribe of the larger Abaluhya people of western Kenya. He was one of the central figures in the shaping of the political landscape in Kenya. A renowned anti-colonial activist, he campaigned for the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in his later years. He was a ruthless negotiator and a proponent of peaceful but focused politics. He had a reputation for integrity rivaled only by Ngala. He was considered by some as one of the best leaders that never became president, it has been speculated that had he not died, he may have beaten Moi for the presidency in 1992. Early life Henry Pius Masinde Muliro was born in Matili village, Kimilili area of Kenya, the son of Muliro Kisingilie and his wife Makinia. His farmer father was a Roman Catholic, and after his parents died, he was brought up by an older stepbrother, Aibu Naburuku. He undertook his elementary and second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru
Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru (? – 16 March 1922) was a Kikuyu woman and a Kenyan political activist remembered for leading the protest after the arrest of Harry Thuku, that resulted in her death. Muthoni Nyanjiru was born in Weithaga, Murang'a, Kenya, although her date or year of birth are not recorded. At the time she was shot and killed in 1922, she had been living in Nairobi with her stepdaughter, Elizabeth Waruiru. Background Nyanjiru was an associate and supporter of Harry Thuku. Thuku, secretary and Young Kikuyu Association (later known as the East African Association) was known throughout Kikuyuland as "chief of women" mainly for his vocal support of women especially around the issues of physical and sexual abuse, as well as forced labor. Harry Thuku protests Thuku was arrested on 14 March 1922, over concern for his increasing militancy and the growing number of his supporters. The day following Thuku's arrest a strike was called by the EAA and thousands peacefully marche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Shikuku
Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi (December 25, 1932– August 22, 2012) was a Kenyan politician. Spouse: Dolorosa Regina Elizabeth Achieng Shikuku: born 12 June 1942- Died 5 December 2004. Children: Sylvano Madanji Shikuku: Both 16 November 1966, Emmanuel Noel Osyle Shikuku, Born 26 December 1968, Lucie Awor Shikuku, Born 30 June 1971 and Martina Maende Shikuku, Born 26 January 1974-Died 4 November 2016. Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi, was born on Christmas day 1932 in Magadi Kenya. His father was John Osule Oyondi and he was as married to Lucia Andeche in the Catholic church in 1929. They had seven children. Shikuku was the second born. Early life Shikuku attended St Peters Mumias boys primary school, a Catholic school in western Kenya. After completing his primary education he joined St. Peters Seminary for secondary education with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest. This was not to be as he apparently fell in love and left the seminary. Career He briefly worked with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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