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Prime location: How Kenyatta ‘hijacked’ Harambee House

Harambee [Photo: Courtesy]

On June 1, 1963, slightly more than 20,000 souls gathered along what was then Coronation Second Avenue to witness a ceremony that ushered in self-rule. Coronation Street is the present day Harambee Avenue and the ceremony was held outside Harambee House.

It was simple, really. The colonial government, with six months to full independence, was handing over the government to Jomo Kenyatta then the new Prime Minister of Kenya.

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