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The old boys club that made up independence Cabinet

Jomo Kenyatta chairs a Cabinet meeting.

By Njonjo Kihuria

Kenya: Independent Kenya’s first Cabinet was more of an old boys club, with nine of its 15 members being former Alliance High School students. Two others had gone to Maseno and another two were former Mang’u High School students. Almost all of the ones who attended Alliance also took diploma courses at Makerere College in Uganda.

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