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Dear daddy: Uhuru’s sister Margaret Kenyatta’s letters to Jomo in jail

Margaret Kenyatta dancing with her father Jomo Kenyatta JAN 1972

When she was born at Pumwani in 1928, his father was leaving for England and therefore just sent her mother “greetings and bananas.”

She went on to become the first black and third woman mayor of Nairobi. It was during her tenure that the city council built housing estates like Buruburu.

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