Angolan Ambassador to Kenya Sianga Abilio during an interview at their Embassy in Runda, Nairobi on November 9, 2021[Boniface Okendo, Standard] Kenya's founding president Jomo Kenyatta played a ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Field Marshall Musa Mwariama and Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Kenya celebrates the 58 th Madaraka Day since the first was marked ...

Uhuru Kenyatta's great forbear Jomo often re-minded Kenyans that Uhuru (Independence) was not handed to them on a silver platter. "Hatukupata Uhuru kwa sahani! Tuliunyakua kutoka mikono ya mbeberu!

(See Cover) It was the biggest African political rally in Nairobi’s history. Under the hot sun, 20,000 blacks packed into African Stadium, sang and chanted as they waited for the returning hero, just ...

When founding president Jomo Kenyatta made his deal with the British colonial authorities for Kenya’s Uhuru (Swahili for “freedom”) in 1963, for many it smacked of Dr Faustus’ pact with the devil. In ...

Few witnessed the building of the young Kenyan state from within as did Ngina Kenyatta, the widow of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta. Mama Ngina, as she is known, will mark her 90th birthday on ...