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In 1944 Thuku founded and was the first chairman of the multi-tribal Kenya African Study Union (KASU), which in 1946 became the Kenya African Union (KAU). It was an African nationalist organization that demanded access to white-owned land.
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, [ 12 ] Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world [ 7 ] and 7th most populous in Africa.
This is a timeline of the History of Kenya comprising important legal and territorial changes as well as political, social, and economic events in Kenya, read more at History of Kenya This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
On 26th May 1963, Kenya had its first elections and a new red, green, black and white flag was introduced. [19] Exactly 12 months after independence, on 12 December 1964, Kenya became a republic under the name "Republic of Kenya". [6] Cover of a Colony and Protectorate of Kenya passport, 1955.
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This is a list of the heads of state of Kenya, from the independence of Kenya in 1963 to the present day. From 1963 to 1964 the head of state under the Constitution of 1963 was the queen of Kenya, Elizabeth II, who was also the queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch was represented in Kenya by a governor-general.
Chief Kivoi Mwendwa (born in the 1700s) was a Kamba long-distance trader who lived in the present day Kitui.Kivoi is most famous for guiding missionaries into the interior of the present day Kenya after he guided the German missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS).