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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 in Ichaweri, located in the East African highlands southwest of Mount Kenya, in what was then British East Africa (now Kenya). He was born as Kamau, the son of a leader of a small Kikuyu agricultural settlement.12