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Article: Kenyans Mark Kenyatta Day
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 20, 1995
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President Daniel arap Mois today leads Kenyans in marking the 43rd
anniversary of Kenyatta Day which commemorates the arrest in 1952 of
Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of the country.
Today in 1952, the colonial government arrested Mzee Jomo Kenyatta
and other founding members of the Kenyan nation for their political
struggle against the colonial government.
The day is used to commemorate the struggle of independence
whereupon key architects of the struggle for "Uhuru" (meaning
freedom) were ...