Amin, Idi (c. 1924–2003), president of Uganda, was born about 1924 in Koboko in north-western Uganda to Muslim parents. His mother was a Kakwa; his father is said to have been Nubian, a term used of the Sudanese troops brought into Uganda by ...
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Amin, Idi (c. 1924–2003), president of Uganda
M. Louise Pirouet
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Blundell, Sir Michael (1907–1993), farmer and politician in Kenya
John Johnson
Blundell, Sir Michael (1907–1993), farmer and politician in Kenya, was born on 7 April 1907 at 33 Campden House Court, Kensington, London, the third of four sons of Alfred Herbert Blundell, a London solicitor, and his wife, Amelia Woodward Richardson. His father's family came from ...
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Cholmondeley, Hugh, third Baron Delamere (1870–1931), settler in Kenya and politician
Anthony Clayton
Cholmondeley, Hugh, third Baron Delamere (1870–1931), settler in Kenya and politician, was born in London on 28 April 1870, the only son of Hugh Cholmondeley, second Baron Delamere (1811–1887), and his second wife, Augusta Emily (d. 1911), eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton Seymour...
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Kavuma, Paulo Neil (1901–1989), administrator and first minister of Buganda
M. Louise Pirouet
Kavuma, Paulo Neil (1901–1989), administrator and first minister of Buganda, was born in Ssingo county, Buganda (Uganda), the son of Saulo Balirete Munako, a protestant minor chief, and his wife, Samali Saba Webwa. In 1909 he was sent to live with the Revd W. B. Gill...
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Kenyatta, Jomo (c. 1895–1978), president of Kenya
Bruce J. Berman
Kenyatta, Jomo (c. 1895–1978), president of Kenya, was born in Ngenda in north-eastern Kiambu district at the inception of British rule in east Africa, the son of Muigai wa Magana. Orphaned early by the death of his father, in a smallpox epidemic during the early stages of colonialism, he lived with his uncle ...
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Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930–1969), labour leader and politician in Kenya
David Goldsworthy
Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930–1969), labour leader and politician in Kenya, was born at Kilima Mbogo, near Thika, north of Nairobi, on 15 August 1930, the eldest of the six children of Leunadus Ndiege, a sisal worker from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, and his wife ...
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Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (1922–1999), president of Tanzania
Cranford Pratt
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (1922–1999), president of Tanzania, was born on 13 April 1922 in Butiama, Tanganyika, one of twenty-six children of Chief Nyerere Burita, one of a number of chiefs in the small Zanaki tribe in western Tanganyika. He was educated at a local native authority primary school and at ...
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Obote, (Apolo) Milton (1925–2005), prime minister and president of Uganda
M. Louise Pirouet
Obote, (Apolo) Milton (1925–2005), prime minister and president of Uganda, was born on 28 December 1925 at Akokoro in Lira district, Lango, northern Uganda, the son of Stanley Opeto Anyanga, a farmer who eventually became a minor chief, and his second wife, Priscilla Acen Eyer...
