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Njonjo, the man who shaped Kenyan history

From right to left: Kenya's first President Jomo Kenyatta, his successor Daniel arap Moi and Charles Njonjo. To the extreme right is Chief Justice Sir James Wicks. [Archives, Standard]

Charles Njonjo turns 100 years today. The former hugely feared Attorney General, and later Minister for Home and Constitutional Affairs, hardly needs an introduction. His fingerprints are virtually everywhere, on every major legal and political decision and happening in Kenya’s first 23 years of independence.

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