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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 born circa 1894 in Ichaweri, British East Africa (now in Kenya), and he died on August 22, 1978, in Mombasa, Kenya.1