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To: Seizethecarp

You can spin it all you like, you were suggesting that the kenyan took SAD to Kenya to celebrate Kenyatta - but Kenyatta was still in jail on that ‘birthdate’. There’s something wrong with your head, mate.
What you write reads like Barbara Cartland meets 007. Calling the son-of-a-kenyan-goat-herder a ‘princeling’ FINISHED it for me.


201 posted on 03/15/2012 3:38:39 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Yeah.


202 posted on 03/15/2012 4:09:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
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To: Fred Nerks

Kenyatta’s release from prison to a half-way house in April 1961 was greatly celebrated. At the half-way house he could meet the press and public and walk to the village with his Somali bodyguard. It was clear that the British would be leaving when they released the man who would be the leader of post-colonial Keyna.

http://www.enzimuseum.org/museums-of-kenya/site-museums/kenyatta-house-maralal

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Kenyatta House Maralal

Maralal is a small hillside market town in northern Kenya, lying east of the Loroghi Plateau within the Samburu District. The town is home to Kenyatta House, the location where Jomo Kenyatta was detained prior to his release.

Upon conviction and sentencing at Kapenguria on April 8, 1953, Kenyatta remained in prison in Lokitaung until 1959. He was then detained in Lodwar under house arrest for two years. On April 11, 1961, he was moved to Maralal with his daughter Margaret where he met world press for the first time in eight years. On August 14, 1961, he was released and brought to his Gatundu home.

The house was built with the specific intention of housing Mzee Jomo Kenyatta after his stay in Lodwar. It was a halfway house between freedom and imprisonment (he was allowed visitors). Unlike in Lodwar, where access to him was controlled, at Maralal he was free to walk around with his Somali bodyguard to the town downhill, interact with locals and shop from his government allowance.

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206 posted on 03/15/2012 5:30:08 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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