WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following people are from Africa?
A
Kemal Ataturk
B
Kwame Nkrumah
C
Gandhi
D
Jomo Kenyatta
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Kenyatta was born to Kikuyu farmers in Kiambu, British East Africa. Educated at a mission school, he worked in various jobs before becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs.

Detailed explanation-2: -She often accompanied him in public, and some streets in Nairobi and Mombasa are named after her. She bore Kenyatta four children: Wambui (born 1953), Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 1961), Anna Nyokabi Muthama Kenyatta (born May 1963) Muhoho Kenyatta (born 1965). Mama Ngina lives quietly as a wealthy widow in Kenya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kenyatta is an East African surname derived from the beaded belt worn by Maasai.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first inhabitants of present-day Kenya were hunter-gatherer groups, akin to the modern Khoisan speakers. The Kansyore culture, dating from the mid 5th millennium BCE to the 1st millennium BCE was one of East Africa’s earliest ceramic producing group of hunter-gatherers.

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