Jomo+Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta was the leader of the nonovionlent nationalist party in Kenya, the Kenya Africa Union. He was imprisoned by the British after being accused of working with radical geurilla movements known as the Land Freedom Army. When the radicals grew in power, at once having nearly 200,000 geurilla soldiers in the captial at Nairobi, the British launched an all-out military effort to cruch the rebels. The rebel movements were militarilly defeated by 1956 at the cost of many lives but the British had become ready to negotiate with nationalists. By 1963, Kenya won its independance under Kenyatta's one-party system which lasted until the 1980s, being one of the most stable and prosperous of the new African states.

Created by Ian Worthington and Stephen Puckette 5/19/09