Kenya · Government / Kenya African National Union (KANU). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Griffith ignores the KAUs demands and proposes a Legislative Council in which the 30,000 white settlers receive 14 representatives, the 100,000 Asians got six, the 24,000 Arabs one, and the five million Africans five representatives
Kenyatta is appointed Prime Minister of the autonomous Kenyan Government, and is known as mzee (a Swahili word meaning old man or elder)
Retains the role of Prime Minister after independence was declared
Appointed Minister of Constitutional Affairs
Kenyatta convinces Moi that KADU and KANU should be merged to complete the process of decolonisation, Kenya becomes a de facto single-party state, dominated by the Kikuyu-Luo alliance
Kenya becomes a republic, with Kenyatta as executive president
Changes the constitution to gain extended powers
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