Term Papers on Jomo Kenyatta

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Jomo Kenyatta

       Throughout the twenitieth century, many individuals have made importaint
contributions to their nations or to thier region.Three that i will be talking
about are Jomo Kenyatta, Yassir Arafat, and Yizhak Rabin. due to what these
Three have done what whould be of there nations or regions.
       Jomo Kenyatta was the first president of Kenya. He was devoted
nationalist who was a staunch protector of Western political and economic
interests in Kenya. Kenyatta was widely regarded as a stabilizing force in Kenya.
       Kenyatta was born probably on October 20, 1891, at Ichaweri in British
East Africa (now Kenya). A member of the Kikuyu tribe, he was named Kamau wa
Ngengi. Educated at the Church of Scotland Mission at Kikuyu and baptized a
Christian, he worked as a government clerk in Nairobi. Where in 1922 he joined a
political protest movement. By 1928, as secretary of the Kikuyu Central
Association, he was chief advocate for Kikuyu land rights. From 1931 to 1946 he
worked and studied in Western Europe and Moscow. While in London, Kenyatta
studied under the British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote his
influential book Facing Mount Kenya (1938).
       On returning to Africa, Kenyatta was elected president of the new Kenya
African Union (later, Kenya African National Union, or KANU). In 1952 he was
charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British, and, despite his
denials, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years in exile.
Released in 1961, he assumed the presidency of KANU. In 1963, when Kenya gained
independence, Kenyatta became prime minister. He was elected president of the
new Republic of Kenya in 1964 and held that post until his death in Mombasa on
August 22, 1978.
       Yassir Arafat is a  Palestinian commando leader and politician. Hes the
head of head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Born in Jerusalem
he fled after the establishment of Israel in 1948 later studied engineering in
CairoRabin, Yitzhak (1922- ), Israeli political leader. Born in Jerusalem and
educated in an agricultural school, Rabin fought with Palmach, a Jewish commando
unit, against British authorities in Palestine. Jailed by the British in mid-
1946, he was released in early 1947 and helped lead the defense of Je...

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