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The ‘little shopkeeper’ who had Mzee Jomo Kenyatta jailed

Jomo Kenyatta
         Founding president was convicted largely due to the false testimony of Rawson Macharia

By Kenneth Kwama

Kenya: ‘Frail, little Kikuyu shopkeeper’, that is how Time magazine described the star witness who provided false testimony against Kenya’s founding President, Jomo Kenyatta and got him convicted during the Kapenguria trials in 1953.

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