H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta

The President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

Uhuru is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding father and the first president of the republic of Kenya (in office 1964–1978), with his fourth wife, Mama Ngina Kenyatta. His given name "Uhuru" is from the Swahili term for "freedom", and was given to him in anticipation of Kenya's upcoming independence. Uhuru attended St Mary's School in Nairobi. Between 1979 and 1980, he also briefly worked as a teller at the Kenya Commercial Bank.

After St. Mary's school, Uhuru went on to study economics, political science and government at Amherst College in the United States. Upon his graduation, Uhuru returned to Kenya, and started a company Wilham Kenya Limited, through which he sourced and exported agricultural produce. Uhuru was nominated to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President Daniel Arap Moi. H.E. Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election, but lost to the opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki. He subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. He was later appointed the Minister of Local Government by H.E. Kibaki in January 2008, before becoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade in April 2008 as part of a coalition government.

Subsequently, Kenyatta was Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2012, while remaining Deputy Prime Minister. In 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta was elected as the 4th and current president of Kenya after being re-elected back in office in 2017.

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