The betting is off for an historically neat succession in which President Daniel arap Moi hands over to Uhuru Kenyatta the leadership of the Kenya African National Union; Moi took over when Uhuru's father Jomo Kenyatta first President of independent Kenya died in 1978...
The strategy emerged during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly last October from discussions with his closest advisors: Joshua Chelego Kulei (personal assistant and relative) Sally Kosgei (civil service head) Hosea Kiplagat (nephew and Cooperative Bank of Kenya boss) Uhuru Kenyatta (in the wings; son of the late President Jomo Kenyatta)...
Its head is the retiring Njoroge Mungai (Kikuyu KANU Vice-Chairperson) once the most energetic minister in Jomo Kenyatta's cabinet (1963-74)...
'As Luos we should never ever forget the massacre of 1969 ' (when the bodyguard of the late Kikuyu President Jomo Kenyatta shot 11 Luo demonstrators outside Kisumu town)...
Before that he had been carving out a role as manager of the transition to the next presidency should Moi retire - much the same role that he played as Attorney General during the succession to Jomo Kenyatta in 1977 and 1978...
Huge plantations and ranches are owned by wealthy Africans (including the families of the founding President Jomo Kenyatta and of Moi himself) sometimes jointly with white Kenyans or foreign investors...
The weekend after parliament adopted his report Raila Odinga led a 40-vehicle motorcade into Nyeri District in the Kikuyu heartland taking along the late Jomo Kenyatta's son Uhuru Kenyatta a KANU stalwart who lost the parliamentary election to an opposition neophyte in 1997...
The Luo and Kikuyu fell out while Jomo Kenyatta (Kikuyu) was President; cooperation is a huge political liability in Luoland...
Biwott a Kalenjin (Geiyo) may fear the fate that met the Anglophile Kikuyu lawyer Charles Njonjo chief engineer of Moi's succession to the Presidency after the death of founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in 1978...
When Jomo Kenyatta died in 1978 Vice-President Moi used his three months to forge an ethnic coalition and fight off rival claims from a close-knit group of Kikuyu plotters...
To make amends Nyachae recently met with Kibaki's main rival for Kikuyu loyalty Kenneth Matiba (who is ill) along with Ngengi Muigai (Jomo Kenyatta's nephew) who are both popular in their respective bailiwicks...
Started by Jomo Kenyatta's government in 1968 in a bid to Africanise the economy NBK has current assets of 23 bn...