Jomo Kenyatta

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Jomo Kenyatta

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Jomo Kenyatta
(c. 1894[2] – 22 August 1978)
served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya.
He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.

In Kenya, Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi's main street and main streets in many Kenyan cities and towns, numerous schools, two Universities (Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology), the country's main referral hospital, markets, and housing estates are named after Jomo Kenyatta.

A statue in downtown Nairobi and monuments all over Kenya stand in his honour. Kenya observed a public holiday every 20 October in his honour until the new 2010 constitution abolished Kenyatta Day and replaced it with
Mashujaa (Heroes' ) day.

Kenyatta's face adorns Kenyan currency notes and coins of all denominations, but this is expected to change as the new constitution bans the use of the portrait of any person on Kenya's currency.
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20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day
This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with
Hero's (Mashujaa) Day
in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .


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Seated on his plinth outside
Kenyatta International Conference Centre


Photo (C) Isabelle Prondzynski


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


Kenyatta beach --
a February wave knocks her off
her tube floater

Caleb Mutua in Mombasa, 2011


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Mashujaa Day
street paths coloured with
pink blossoms

Cal Wodhes (Caleb Mutua)
source : facebook, October 2011

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jacaranda flowers fall
on Tom Mboya statue—
Moi Avenue


an orphan girl
calls to name me her hero--
Freedom songs

Patrick Wafula, 2011

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Mashujaa day - Heroes' day

Mashujaa day.....
the rain forces the choir
from the stage

Kelvin Mukoselo

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Mashujaa day--
they march all around
the stadium

Stephen Macharia - MORE


Mashujaa day--
the president inspect the parade
in a jovial mood

Kalivo - MORE




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Related words

-- Jomo Kenyatta Beach in Mombasa
-- Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi
-- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi


***** National Holidays in Kenya


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