1. Birth at Ngenda

    · Ngenda, Kiambu County, Kenya

    Kenyatta was born Kamau wa Mūigai in the rural Kikuyu village of Ngenda, the beginning of a life that would lead from local political organizing to Kenya’s independence leadership. Birth year is approximate; Wikipedia gives c. 1897 or 1898 in its biographical discussion.

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