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The story of the man who taught Jomo Kenyatta how to smoke pot

Padmore [Photo: Courtesy]

He has a road named after him along Ngong Road in Nairobi.  

George Padmore, a Pan-Africanist intellectual with a communist flair from Trinidad, and whose entry into founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s reshaped his view of political world order.  

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