When I dumped Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, he cried like a baby

At the time, the ‘old lion’ was the principal of the first college for Africans, the Kenya Teachers Training College in Githunguri, Kiambu County where the object of his affection was Esther Wanjeri, now 84.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s son, Jomo, married in a traditional ceremony the other day.

But his grandfather, founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, was not so lucky when he tried professing his love to one of his female students after returning from England over 60s years ago.