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Trial

Kenya · Government / Kenya African National Union (KANU). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1953Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1953

Jomo Kenyatta8 April 1953

Government / Kenya African National Union (KANU)

Found guilty of organizing a terrorist campaign to drive out white settlers from Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta8 April 1953

Lodwar · Government / Kenya African National Union (KANU)

The court sentences Kenyatta to seven years of hard labor, sent into exile on probation in Lodwar, a remote part of Kenya

Names involved

Jomo Kenyatta

Provenance

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