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How Jomo Kenyatta joined university without secondary school results slip

Jomo Kenyatta at London School of Economics in 1934.

In 2014, President Uhuru Kenyatta recently received an honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) degree from Kabarak University for “his sterling leadership and management of the country’s affairs.”

Uhuru now has bragging rights to a doctorate, like retired president Mwai Kibaki who received a Doctor of Laws degree in 2012 from his alma mater, Makerere University, where he was a First Class in economics graduate in 1955.

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