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  2. Mwai Kibaki - Wikipedia

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    Mwai Kibaki. Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki[needs IPA] CGH [1] (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) [2] was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. [3] He had previously served as the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under President Daniel arap Moi.

  3. Mau Mau rebellion - Wikipedia

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    —Deputy Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 March 1945 The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British ...

  4. Former Kenyan President Kibaki is dead at 90 - AOL

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    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Mwai Kibaki, the former Kenyan leader whose distinguished political career was tarnished when he won a The post Former Kenyan President Kibaki is dead at 90 appeared first ...

  5. Dedan Kimathi - Wikipedia

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    Dedan Kimathi. Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (born Kimathi wa Waciuri; 31 October 1920 – 18 February 1957) was the senior military and spiritual leader of the Kikuyu rebels involved in the Mau Mau Uprising. Widely regarded as a revolutionary leader, he led the armed military struggle against the British colonial regime in Kenya in the 1950s until his ...

  6. Presidency of Mwai Kibaki - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The presidency of Mwai Kibaki began at 11:00 AM GMT on Monday 30 December 2002, when Mwai Kibaki was inaugurated as the 3rd president of Kenya and ended on 9 April 2013 when he handed over to Uhuru Kenyatta. A NARC candidate, Kibaki was a businessman and member of parliament of Othaya constituency prior to his 2002 election victory ...

  7. Māui - Wikipedia

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    Māui or Maui is the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity ( Demigod ) and more of a folk hero . His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.

  8. Māui (Hawaiian mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The great fish-hook of Maui, Manaiakalani, The whole earth was the fish-line bound by the knot, Kauiki bound to the mainland and towering high. Hanaiakamalama (lived there). The alae of Hina was the bait (of the fish-hook) let down to Hawaii. Tangled with the bait into a bitter death, Lifting up the very base of the island; Drawing it up to the ...

  9. Lucy Kibaki - Wikipedia

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    Lucy Muthoni was born in 1936. Her parents were Rev. John Kagai, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and Rose Nyachomba, in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County, (formerly Nyeri District in Central Province ), Kenya. [2] She was educated at Alliance Girls High School, [3] then trained as a teacher, working first at Kamwenja Teachers College ...