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The Ruthless but flamboyant Jomo Kenyatta

The late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta

"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."

As the country celebrates Madaraka Day dubbed #KenyaAt60, those words remind us where Kenya stood 60 years ago, and they obviously cannot escape the contribution of the founding father of the nation, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, in attaining self-rule.

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