JOMO KENYATTA

Jomo Kenyatta (English pronunciation: /domo knjt/) (c. 1891

22 August 1978) was a Kenyan politician and the first President of Kenya.
Kenyatta was the leader of Kenya from independence in 1963 to his death
in 1978, serving first as Prime Minister (196364) and then as President
(196478). He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.
[1]
Kenyatta was a well-educated intellectual who authored several books,
and is remembered as a Pan-Africanist. He is also the father of Kenya's
fourth and current President, Uhuru Kenyatta.

Numerous institutions and locations are named after Kenyatta,

including Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenyatta
International Conference Centre, Nairobi's main street and main streets in
many Kenyan cities and towns, numerous schools, two universities
(Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and
Technology), the country's main referral hospital, markets and housing
estates. A statue in Nairobi's centre and monuments all over Kenya stand in
his honour. Kenya observed a public holiday every 20 October in his
honour until the 2010 constitution abolished Kenyatta Day and replaced it
with Mashujaa (Heroes') day. Before the enactment of the new constitution,
Kenyatta's face adorned Kenyan currency notes and coins of all
denominations except the 40 shilling coin.

Lu Hsun

Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsn, was the pen name of Zhou
Shuren (25 September 1881 19 October 1936), a leading figure of
modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well
as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator,
literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of
the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.
Lu Xun was born into a family of landlords and government officials
in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; the family's financial resources declined over the
course of his youth. Lu aspired to take the imperial civil service exam, but
due to his family's relative poverty he was forced to attend government-
funded schools teaching "Western education." Upon graduation, Lu went to
medical school in Japan but later dropped out. He became interested in
studying literature but was eventually forced to return to China due to his
family's lack of funds. After returning to China, Lu worked for several years
teaching at local secondary schools and colleges before finally finding a job
at the national Ministry of Education.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. After studying in Nigeria and the
UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that
were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role
in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In
1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a
demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967 during
the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu
Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.[3]
Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian governments, especially the
country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including
the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the
oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". [4] During the
regime of General Sani Abacha (199398), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria on a
motorcycle via the "NADECO Route." Abacha later proclaimed a death sentence
against him "in absentia."[4] With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka
returned to his nation.
 Villa was born on August 5, 1908, in Manila's Singalong district. His parents were
Simen Villa (a personal physician of Emilio Aguinaldo, the founding President of the
First Philippine Republic) and Guia Garcia (a wealthy landowner). [citation needed]

He graduated from the University of the Philippines Integrated School and the University
of the Philippines High School in 1925. Villa enrolled on a Pre-Medical course in the
University of the Philippines, but then switched to Pre-Law course. However, he realized
that his true passion was in the arts. Villa first tried painting, but then turned into creative
writing after reading Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
On February 5, 1997, at the age of 88, Jose was found in a coma in his New York
apartment and was rushed to St. Vincent Hospital in the Greenwich Village area. His
death two days later, February 7, was attributed to "cerebral stroke and multilobar
pneumonia". He was buried on February 10 in St. John's Cemetery in New York,
wearing a Barong

In 1946 Villa married Rosemarie Lamb, with whom he had two sons, Randall and
Lance. They annulled ten years later. He also had three grandchildren, Jordan Villa,
Sara Villa Stokes and Travis Villa. Villa was especially close to his nieces, Ruby Precilla,
Milagros Villanueva, Maria Luisa Cohen and Maria Villanueva.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore[a] FRAS ( /rbindrnt tr/; Bengali: [robindd ro natd akur]), also
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written Ravndrantha Thkura[2] (7 May 1861 7 August 1941),[b] sobriquet Gurudev,[c] was
a Bengali polymath[4][5] who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian
art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its
"profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", [6] he became the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[7] Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal",[8] Tagore's
poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical
poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.[9]

A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an
eight-year-old.[10] At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the
pseudonym Bhnusiha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost
classics.[11][12] By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real
name. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, [13] he denounced
the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal
Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds
of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-
Bharati University
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