Jomo Kenyatta Article

What was Jomo Kenyatta’s foreign policy?

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Unlike some of his African contemporaries, Jomo Kenyatta’s government was notably favourable to the British and other Western powers. Kenyatta established the Kenyan republic within the British Commonwealth, and the capitalist international community poured resources into developing Kenya’s infrastructure as a result of its Western alignment during the Cold War.