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Of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s cluttered desk and a State House so tiny Barack Obama ate in a tent

President Uhuru at State House

Old Jomo, Kenya’s first president, spent only one night in Nairobi’s State House and never returned, saying he couldn’t sleep a wink because of the ghosts of colonialists in the 1907 stately edifice of neoclassical architecture designed by Herbert Baker. 

His son Uhuru, and Kenya’s forth President seems to have elected to fuata nyayo, preferring to conduct the affairs of state at State House but retiring for the night to his private residence across the road.

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