Jomo Kenyatta spent seven years in a British colonial prison for allegedly organizing the Mau Mau uprising — charges many historians now consider fabricated. He emerged from prison, led Kenya to independence, and governed for fifteen years as both the father of the nation and an increasingly authoritarian president whose land policies enriched his own ethnic group at others’ expense.

This episode traces Kenyatta from his Kikuyu childhood through the London anthropology years, the Mau Mau imprisonment, the independence negotiations, and the presidency that created modern Kenya and its problems.

• Kenyatta’s Kikuyu origins, his London years studying anthropology under Malinowski
• The Mau Mau emergency, the politically motivated trial, and seven years of imprisonment
• The independence negotiations and the “Harambee” nation-building project
• The authoritarian drift, the ethnic favoritism, and the dynasty that followed his death