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When did Jomo Kenyatta become president of the Kenya African Union?
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Jomo Kenyatta
African statesman and nationalist Jomo Kenyatta was the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya.
Jomo Kenyatta was elected president of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in June 1947.1
He had returned to Kenya in September 1946 to take up leadership of the organization, which had been founded in 1944 as the Kenya African Study Union.21