Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He played a
Kenyatta in 1966
A traditional Kikuyu house, similar to that in which Kenyatta would have lived in Ngenda
Kenyatta lobbied against many of the actions of Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya. Grigg tried to suppress many of Kenyatta's activities.
(l-r) Jomo Kenyatta, Apa Pant, and Achieng Oneko
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence
Portrait of Nkrumah
Nkrumah in the Lincoln University yearbook, 1942
60 Burghley Road, Kentish Town, London, where Nkrumah lived when in London between 1945 and 1947
Red cockerel, "Forward Ever, Backward Never": Convention People's Party logo and slogan