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Jomo Kenyatta

President of Kenya from 1964 to 1978

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Jomo Kenyatta 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.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jomo Kenyatta” as president of Kenya from 1964 to 1978. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1964, 1978, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jomo, Kenyatta and President can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as president of Kenya from 1964 to 1978. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jomo Kenyatta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.