Jomo Kenyatta is a Kenyan statesman. An independence activist, he is imprisoned from 1952 to 1961 and became Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then President of the Republic from 1964 to 1978. Kenyatta not only fought for Kenya’s independence, he also tried to make it a united nation, in spite of a very great cultural diversity. Father of modern Kenya, he is undoubtedly the most important political figure in Kenya’s contemporary history.