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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 * Wangu wa Makeri 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. Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHYN
WHYN can refer to: * WHYN (AM), a radio station at 560 AM located in Springfield, Massachusetts * WHYN-FM, a radio station at 93.1 FM located in Springfield, Massachusetts * WGGB-TV, a TV station which formerly carried the WHYN-TV call signs located in Springfield, Massachusetts {{Call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) 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 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 1961 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 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the 1930s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East, University College London, and the London School of Economics. In 1938, he published an anthropological study of Kikuyu life before working as a farm labou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Mathenge
Stanley Mathenge wa Mirugi (born c. 1919; disappeared 1955) was a Kenyan military leader during the Mau Mau rebellion. Background He was born in Mahiga, Nyeri District. Before the Mau Mau rebellion, 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 brother, Joseph Kiiru Mirugi, died in 2009 in Mahiga, Othaya a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramogi Achieng Oneko
Ramogi Achieng Oneko (1920–2007) was a Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, considered a national hero in Kenya. 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 a 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 detentio ... [...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 was key in Kenya's struggle for independence. He was assassinated in 1965, leading many to consider him independent Kenya's first political martyr. Early years Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March 1927 to a family of Goan Catholic descent. Born to immigrant Goan parents hailing from the Portuguese 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 Goa for his education and spent the next nine years there, passing his matriculation exams at St. Joseph's High School, Arpora and then moving to the Bombay Presidency, studying science at Karnatak College, Dharwar for two years before joining the Royal 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 an ... [...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 jo ... [...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. 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 life and education George Philip Ochola (later known as Ochola Ogaye Mak’Anyengo) was born in 1930 in South Nyanza, Kenya Colony, to Yohana Anyengo, a Licensed Minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church - Ranen Field and Rael Ogondi. He completed his primary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa Mwariama
Musa Mwariama (1928–1993) was a Kenyan revolutionary leader of the Mau Mau in Meru and the highest-ranking Mau Mau leader who survived the war without being 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 post war Mau Mau video clips show him inspecting a Mau Mau guard of honour or with President Jomo Kenyatta. In 1984, President Daniel arap Moi Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( ; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020) was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of ... [...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. An anti-colonial activist, he campaigned for the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in his later years. Early life Henry Pius Masinde Muliro was born in Matili village, in the 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 Naburuk. He undertook his elementary and secondary school studies in Kenya and Uganda, He attended several mission schools run by Catholics, including St. Peter's College in Tororo, Uganda. He joined the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1949, enrolling for a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, Philosophy and Education. He graduated in 1953 with a deg ... [...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 marched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Shikuku
Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi (December 25, 1932– August 22, 2012) was a Kenyan politician. Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi was born on Christmas day 1932 in Magadi Kenya. His father was John Osule Oyondi and he was 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 Caltex oil company in Kenya then Kenya and then East African Railways before joining politics at a young age of 19 on 18 October 1952. At the age of 28, he was the youngest member of the Kenyan delegation to Lancaster House Conferences (England), as the youth representative for KADU, a political party which toget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makhan Singh (Kenyan Trade Unionist)
Makhan Singh Jabbal (27 December 1913 18 May 1973) was a Kenyan labour union leader who is credited with establishing the foundations of trade unionism in Kenya. He is credited to have played a vital role in the Kenyan Freedom Struggle. He was detained by the British colonialists for 11 years from 1950 to 1961 - the longest ever political detention in Kenya's history. Early life Makhan Singh was born in Gharjakh, a village in Gujranwala District, Punjab to a Sikh family. In 1927, at the age of 13, he moved with his family to Nairobi, a municipality which, since 1905, had functioned as the administrative capital of the British East African protectorate. Indian Freedom Movement From the end of the Second World War he participated in the Indian Freedom Movement from Kenya where he as jailed in Gujarat Jail, he was freed after multiple fasts unto death. The Indian Trade Union was formed in 1934 and Makhan Singh elected its secretary not long after, in March 1935. Soon, Makhan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
