Real reason why Jomo Kenyatta grew a beard

Jomo Kenyatta [Photo: Courtesy]

In early 1937, a book titled ‘The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu’ was published by the small press of The International African Institute (IAI).

One of its contributors was a 48-year-old man then called Johnstone Kamau, a student of anthropology at the famous London School of Economics, studying under a professor called Mikhail Malinowski.