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Which name for our President?
Magigi
#1 Posted : Monday, October 21, 2013 9:46:09 AM
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I came across this from a blogger who suggested that President Uhuru should not use the name Kenyatta and I concur with him for clarity sake. Check this: President Kenyatta was only seven years old when Mwakigena choir composed the liberation evoking song, Kenya Yetu. http://www.nation.co.ke/...0/-/sfna50/-/index.html A child who may not know a lot of history may not know which Kenyatta is being referred to.

It seems Jomo had so many names and appears one of his hobbies was to change names... Check this

Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau wa Ngengi to parents Ngengi wa Muigai and Wambui in the village of Gatundu, in British East Africa (now Kenya), a member of the Kikuyu. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid-1890s, is unclear, and was unclear even to him, as his parents were almost certainly not literate, and no formal birth records of native Africans were kept in Kenya at that time.[2][3] His father died while Kamau was very young, after which, as was the custom, he was adopted by his uncle Ngengi, who also inherited his mother, to become Kamau wa Ngengi. When his mother died during childbirth, young Kamau moved from Ng'enda to Muthiga to live with his medicine man grandfather Kũngũ wa Magana, to whom he became very close.

He then left home to become a resident pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM) at Thogoto, close to Kikuyu Town, about 12 miles north-west of Nairobi. He studied amongst other subjects: the Bible, English, mathematics and carpentry. He paid the school fees by working as a houseboy and cook for a white settler living nearby.

In 1912, having completed his mission school education, he became an apprentice carpenter. The following year he underwent initiation ceremonies, including circumcision, to become a member of the kihiu-mwiri age group. In 1914, he converted to Christianity, assuming the name John Peter, which he then changed to Johnstone Kamau. He left the mission later that year to seek employment.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta
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