Besides the Kenyatta family, whose patriarch was Kenya's founding president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the Moi family is ranked among centimillionaires. [260], Renison decided to release Kenyatta before Kenya achieved independence. [10] Ngengi was harsh and resentful toward the three boys, and Wambui decided to take her youngest son to live with her parental family further north. [210] Pritt's involvement brought much media attention;[210] during the trial he faced government harassment and was sent death threats. [385], Another priority for Kenyatta's government was improving access to healthcare services. Beth Mugo has been a nominated senator under the Jubilee Alliance (Ruling Alliance in Kenya) since 2013 and has been known to strongly support her cousin (President Uhuru Kenyatta). [264] In August, he was moved to Gatundu in Kikuyuland, where he was greeted by a crowd of 10,000. [451] The Kikuyu clique surrounding him had sought to amend the constitution to prevent vice president Moiwho was from the Kalenjin people rather than the Kikuyufrom automatically becoming acting president, but their attempts failed amid sustained popular and parliamentary opposition. [422] Soon after the KPU's creation, the Kenyan Parliament amended the constitution to ensure that the defectorswho had originally been elected on the KANU ticketcould not automatically retain their seats and would have to stand for re-election. Jomo married Grace, Wahu Kenyatta in 1942, at age 48. [197] Kenyatta's gradualist and peaceful approach contrasted with the growth of the Mau Mau Uprising, as armed guerrilla groups began targeting the white minority and members of the Kikuyu community who did not support them. [225] According to Murray-Brown, it is likely that political, rather than legal considerations, informed their decision to reject the case. [45], Anti-imperialist sentiment was on the rise among both native and Indian communities in Kenya following the Irish War of Independence and the Russian October Revolution. [104] As a result, Comintern disbanded the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, with which both Padmore and Kenyatta were affiliated. Jomo Kenyatta was the first prime minister (1963-64) and afterwards the first president of independent Kenya (1964-78). [307] Also in attendance were leading figures from the Mau Mau. Mama Ngina lives quietly as a wealthy widow in Kenya. Sam K Mutua currently is a PhD Student at Pan African University Institute of Basic Science, Technology and Innovation (PAUSTI) hosted with in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and . [502] According to Maloba, Kenyatta's government "sought to project capitalism as an African ideology, and communism (or socialism) as alien and dangerous". [164], Kenyatta and other senior IASB members began planning the fifth Pan-African Congress, held in Manchester in October 1945. [423] This resulted in the election of June 1966. [127] Kenyatta socialised at the Student Movement House in Russell Square, which he had joined in the spring of 1934,[128] and befriended Africans in the city. We must refuse to give any support to the British imperialists either by paying taxes or obeying any of their slave laws! Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. She argues that the quality of love is more important than quantity and that children will not be negatively affected by the absence of an opposite-sex parent. He upgraded the economic status of the country after independence. "[513] The South African Peter Abrahams met Kenyatta in London, noting that of all the black men involved in the city's Pan-Africanist movement, he was "the most relaxed, sophisticated and 'westernized' of the lot of us". Although protesting his innocencea view shared by later historianshe was convicted. On being greeted by a crowd shouting KPU slogans, he lost his temper. His son Peter Muigai became an assistant minister of foreign affairs, and his cousin Ngethe Njoroge served as high commissioner to the United Kingdom. She is married in Makueni County and little is known about her. - 1950) (her death) (1 child) See also (1 child) Grace Wahu (1919 - ?) Jomo Kenyatta (n run 1891 n pi niin 22 Pnbt 1978) ee bny macbai ku keye ajuerwelbny. She got married to Jomo Kenyatta, a commoner, when she was only 18 years old. They had 9 children: Peter Muigai Kenyatta, Margaret Wambui Kenyatta and 7 other children. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . [328] The police and military structures were left largely intact. [356] Between late 1967 and early 1968, growing numbers of Kenyan Asians migrated to Britain;[357] in February 1968 large numbers migrated quickly before a legal change revoked their right to do so. [69] Grigg was in London at the same time and, despite his opposition to Kenyatta's visit, agreed to meet with him at the Rhodes Trust headquarters in April. The widening wealth gap skewed in favour of the dominant Kikuyu at the expense of low-income Kenyans and members of other ethnic groups, a problem that was exacerbated by rapid population growth. "[101] Kenyatta also visited Siberia, probably as part of an official guided tour. [488] He wrestled with a contradiction between his conservative desire for a renewal of traditional custom and his reformist urges to embrace Western modernity. [542] On becoming Kenya's leader, his anti-communist positions gained favour in the West,[543] and some pro-Western governments gave him awards; in 1965 he, for instance, received medals from both Pope PaulVI and from the South Korean government. [387] By Kenyatta's death, the majority of Kenyans had access to significantly better healthcare than they had had in the colonial period. Jomo Kenyatta with his sons Uhuru and Muhoho (right). [381] In June 1963, Kenyatta ordered the Ominda Commission to determine a framework for meeting Kenya's educational needs. [180] Kenyatta built a friendship with Koinange's father, a Senior Chief, who gave Kenyatta one of his daughters to take as his third wife. Muhoho Kenyatta, Uhuru's youngest brother, was born in 1964 and runs the Kenyatta's vast business empire that includes Brookside Dairy and Commercial Bank of Africa. [478] Kenyatta expressed this in his statement that "I have stood always for the purposes of human dignity in freedom, and for the values of tolerance and peace. [6][7], Kenyatta married his third wife, Grace Wanjiku, in 1946. [167] Kenyatta supported this resolution, although was more cautious than other delegates and made no open commitment to violence. [374] Kenyatta was concerned by this, and promoted the reversal of this rural-to-urban migration, but in this was unsuccessful. President Uhuru Kenyatta's first born son Jomo and his wife Fiona have been blessed with a baby boy, named after his grandfather, Uhuru. about by swifter communications and mass media which probe into and make familiar all the social patterns of our human family. and started a family. . (1951-1978) children: Anna Nyokabi, Christine Wambui, Jane Wambui, Margaret Kenyatta, Uhuru Kenyatta Presidents Black Leaders Died on: August 22, 1978 [238] There, he was joined by his wife Ngina. H omo Kenyatta pron. [198] For many young Mau Mau militants, Kenyatta was regarded as a hero,[199] and they included his name in the oaths they gave to the organisation; such oathing was a Kikuyu custom by which individuals pledged allegiance to another. He was born in 1964. [168] The conference ended with a statement declaring that while delegates desired a peaceful transition to African self-rule, Africans "as a last resort, may have to appeal to force in the effort to achieve Freedom". [183] In January 1952, KAU members formed a secret Central Committee devoted to direct action, formulated along a cell structure. He concluded by saying that the lack of these measures must inevitably result in a dangerous explosionthe one thing all sane men wish to avoid.. [472] In 1982 he would amend the Kenyan constitution to create a de jure one-party state. [348] Left-wing critics highlighted that the image of "African socialism" portrayed in the document provided for no major shift away from the colonial economy. [390], In part due to his advanced years, Kenyatta rarely traveled outside of Eastern Africa. [30] Kenyatta lived with the family of an aunt who had married a Maasai chief,[31] adopting Maasai customs and wearing Maasai jewellery, including a beaded belt known as kinyata in the Kikuyu language. [217], In April 1953, Judge Thacker found the defendants guilty. (1942-1946), Grace Wahum. [326] This contributed to a perception among many Kenyans that independence had simply seen the dominance of a British elite replaced by the dominance of a Kikuyu elite. [130] Appearing in the film also allowed him to meet and befriend its star, the African-American Paul Robeson. [556] Those desiring a radical transformation of Kenyan society often compared Kenyatta's Kenya unfavourably with its southern neighbour, Julius Nyerere's Tanzania. In 1962, the white minority had produced 80% of the country's exports and were a vital part of its economy, yet between 1962 and 1963 they were emigrating at a rate of 700 a month; Kenyatta feared that this white exodus would cause a brain drain and skills shortage that would be detrimental to the economy. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [486] Donald Savage noted that Kenyatta believed in "the importance of authority and tradition", and that he displayed "a remarkably consistent view of development through self-help and hard work". [21] In 1913, he underwent the Kikuyu circumcision ritual; the missionaries generally disapproved of this custom, but it was an important aspect of Kikuyu tradition, allowing Kenyatta to be recognized as an adult. The paper was mild in tone, preaching self-improvement, and was tolerated by the government. He is the son of Kenya's founding president Jomo Kenyatta. My abilities extend to decision-making and >communication with proficiency in teamwork. Gradually, the number of enrolled pupils fell. [494], Kenyatta had been exposed to Marxist-Leninist ideas through his friendship with Padmore and the time spent in the Soviet Union,[495] but had also been exposed to Western forms of liberal democratic government through his many years in Britain. President Uhuru Kenyatta's son, Jomo, who has for some time been missing from the public eye, on Tuesday night, alongside his dad, visited former Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the latter's home in Karen, Nairobi. [113] In doing so he was virtually alone among political Kenyans; figures like Thuku and Jesse Kariuki were far more moderate in their demands. [412] In 1966, it launched a commission to examine reforms to local government operations,[412] and in 1969 passed the Transfer of Functions Act, which terminated grants to local authorities and transferred major services from provincial to central control. [8] Wambui subsequently bore another son, Kongo,[9] shortly before Muigai died. [351] The 1965 session paper promised an "Africanization" of the Kenyan economy,[352] with the government increasingly pushing for "black capitalism". [87], Between 1935 and 1937, Kenyatta worked as a linguistic informant for the Phonetics Department at University College London (UCL); his Kikuyu voice recordings assisted Lilias Armstrong's production of The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. [564] Simon Gikandi noted that Kenyatta, like Nkrumah, was remembered for "initiating the discourse and process that plotted the narrative of African freedom", but at the same time both were "often remembered for their careless institution of presidential rule, one party dictatorship, ethnicity and cronyism. [393], Facing the pressures of the Cold War,[394] Kenyatta officially pursued a policy of "positive non-alignment". [395], Although many white Kenyans accepted Kenyatta's rule, he remained opposed by white far-right activists; while in London at the July 1964 Commonwealth Conference, he was assaulted by Martin Webster, a British neo-Nazi. [399] Commentators argued that Britain's relationship with Kenyatta's Kenya was a neo-colonial one, with the British having exchanged their position of political power for one of influence. [138] Featuring an introduction written by Malinowski,[139] the book reflected Kenyatta's desire to use anthropology as a weapon against colonialism. He expressed the view that although personally opposing FGM, he regarded its legal abolition as counter-productive, and argued that the churches should focus on eradicating the practice through educating people about its harmful effects on women's health. [215] The trial lasted five months: Rawson Macharia, the main prosecution witness, turned out to have perjured himself; the judge had only recently been awarded an unusually large pension and maintained secret contact with the then colonial Governor Evelyn Baring. Muhoho Kenyatta runs his mother's vast family business but lives out of the public limelight. [402] Kenyatta also maintained a warm relationship with Israel, including when other East African nations endorsed Arab hostility to the state;[403] he for instance permitted Israeli jets to refuel in Kenya on their way back from the Entebbe raid. But his reign faced dark shadows when three prominent pol. [3], He had one son, Peter Magana Kenyatta (born on August 11, 1944), from his short marriage with Edna Clarke. [477] According to Murray-Brown, Kenyatta's "basic philosophy" throughout his life was that "all men deserved the right to develop peacefully according to their own wishes". [2] They lived in a homestead near River Thiririka, where they raised crops and bred sheep and goats. [319], In December 1964, Kenya was officially proclaimed a republic. [443] In October 1969 the government banned the KPU,[444] and arrested Odinga before putting him under indefinite detainment. [567] The Kenyatta family is among Kenya's biggest landowners. [537] From 1963 until his death, a cult of personality surrounded him in the country,[538] one which deliberately interlinked Kenyan nationalism with Kenyatta's own personality. [404] In turn, in 1976 the Israelis warned of a plot by the Palestinian Liberation Army to assassinate him, a threat he took seriously. [283] KANU opposed Majimbo, believing that it served entrenched interests and denied equal opportunities across Kenya; they also insisted on an elected head of government. She often accompanied him in public, and some streets in Nairobi and Mombasa are named after her. Fiona Achola, who wed Jomo last year in a traditional Kikuyu wedding, gave birth to " Baby Wanjiru ", the couple's first child. [25] He then requested that the mission recommend him for employment, but the head missionary refused because of an allegation of minor dishonesty. [415] Relations between Kenyatta and Odinga were strained, and at the March 1966 party conference, Odinga's postthat of party vice presidentwas divided among eight different politicians, greatly limiting his power and ending his position as Kenyatta's automatic successor. [223] The government took the case to the East African Court of Appeal, which reversed the Supreme Court's decision in August. [40], In April 1922, Kenyatta began working as a stores clerk and meter reader for Cook, who had been appointed water superintendent for Nairobi's municipal council. [569] Among these groups there were widespread calls for restitution and in 1991 and 1992 there were violent attacks against many of those who obtained land through Kenyatta's patronage in these areas. The Anti-Slavery Society advanced him funds to pay off his debts and return to Kenya. During the 1930s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East, University College London, and the London School of Economics. Death: October 28, 1979 (58) Immediate Family: Son of Jomo Kenyatta and Grace Wahu Kenyatta. And, like many others, Kamau soon left the mission life for the urban attractions of Nairobi. His annual memorial is marked this week, but was turned into a family only affair last year. [162] He became frustrated by the distance between him and Kenya, telling Edna that he felt "like a general separated by 5000 miles from his troops". The children were not spared. [34] Desiring a wife,[35] Kenyatta entered a relationship with Grace Wahu, who had attended the CMS School in Kabete; she initially moved into Kenyatta's family homestead,[35] although she joined Kenyatta in Dagoretti when Ngengi drove her out. She was the daughter of Senior Chief Koinange and sister to Mbiyu Koinange. She bore him another child, but later died in childbirth. No other African had made such an uncompromising stand for tribal integrity. [57] Kenyatta had two children from his first marriage with Grace Wahu: son Peter Muigai Kenyatta (born 1920), who later became a deputy minister; and daughter Margaret Kenyatta (born 1928). [383] By the time of Kenyatta's death, Kenya's first universitiesthe University of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universityhad been established. To the KCA such a prospect looked disastrous for Kikuyu interests; in February 1929 Kenyatta went to London to testify against the scheme, but in London the secretary of state for colonies refused to meet with him. [335] The government encouraged the use of Swahili as a national language, although English remained the main medium for parliamentary debates and the language of instruction in schools and universities. Two years ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta's eldest son Jomo Kenyatta with his wife Fiona Achola Ngobi, held their Itara near the monumental homestead. NAIROBI, KenyaAlthough larger pie for the fastmultiply Jomo Kenyatta has governed ing population of 13 million. [159] In Sussex, he wrote an essay for the United Society for Christian Literature, My People of Kikuyu and the Life of Chief Wangombe, in which he called for his tribe's political independence. [25] Having completed his apprenticeship to the carpenter, Kenyatta requested that the mission allow him to be an apprentice stonemason, but they refused. "[407] His governance was often criticised by communists and other leftists, some of whom accused him of being a fascist. How I joined State House. Conversely, his rule was criticised as dictatorial, authoritarian, and neocolonial, of favouring Kikuyu over other ethnic groups, and of facilitating the growth of widespread corruption. [122] Another of his fellow LSE students was Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, who invited Kenyatta to stay with him and his mother, Princess Marie Bonaparte, in Paris during the spring of 1936. Born c.1893, Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, brought the light of independence from the British colonialists. [344] When Chinese Communist official Zhou Enlai visited Dar es Salaam, his statement that "Africa is ripe for revolution" was clearly aimed largely at Kenya. Obote personally visited Kenyatta to apologise. [189] He insisted on intertribal representation on the KAU executive and ensured that party business was conducted in Swahili, the lingua franca of indigenous Kenyans. Influenced by his friend George Padmore, he embraced anti-colonialist and Pan-African ideas, co-organising the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester. [121] Fellow course-mates included the anthropologists Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, and Elspeth Huxley. [438] In response to the growing condemnation, the oathing was terminated in September 1969,[439] and Kenyatta invited leaders from other ethnic groups to a meeting in Gatundu. [322] Over the course of 1965 and 1966, several constitutional amendments enhanced the president's power. "[565] [76] Shiels advised Kenyatta to return home to promote Kikuyu involvement in the constitutional process and discourage violence and extremism. 1 M7 Portfolio Student's Name Affiliation Course Name Instructor's . [526], During his trial, Kenyatta described himself as a Christian[527] saying, "I do not follow any particular denomination. Entry into Politics. [39] Kenyatta had initially refused to cease drinking,[38] but in July 1923 officially renounced alcohol and was allowed to return to Holy Communion. better than most African leaders, the aged President of Kenya faces growing and. [223] The appeals process resumed in October 1953, and in January 1954 the Supreme Court upheld the convictions against all but Oneko. Under Kenyatta, Kenya joined the Organisation of African Unity and the Commonwealth of Nations, espousing a pro-Western and anti-communist foreign policy amid the Cold War. He served as Minister of Local Government and Minister of Finance, and in 2013 he was elected as President and later on re-elected in 2017.[10]. [85] In 1931, Kenyatta took his son out of the church school at Thogota and enrolled him in a KCA-approved, independent school. Get info on Jomo Kenyatta Hill - Flint, Michigan - (810) 336-8411. [525] Of these children, it was Margaret who was Kenyatta's closest confidante. [117] Enabled by a grant from the International African Institute,[118] he also took a social anthropology course under Bronisaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics (LSE). [370] The government sold or leased lands in the former White Highlands to these companies, which in turn subdivided them among individual shareholders. And so, surveyed closely, Jomo Kenyatta had more advantages than his fellow Kapenguria Six inmates. Renison's administration and most white settlers favoured this system as it would prevent a strong central government implementing radical reform. [512] A. R. Barlow, a member of the Church of Scotland Mission at Kikuyu, met with Kenyatta in Britain, later relating that he was impressed by how Kenyatta could "mix on equal terms with Europeans and to hold his end up in spite of his handicaps, educationally and socially. [72] In January, Kenyatta met with Drummond Shiels, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, at the House of Commons. [157] He attempted to join the local Home Guard, but was turned down. [80] On his return, his prestige among the Kikuyu was high because of his time spent in Europe. [520] He told his daughter "the English are wonderful people to live with in England. [53], It is likely that the KCA purchased a motorbike for Kenyatta,[52] which he used to travel around Kikuyuland and neighbouring areas inhabited by the Meru and Embu, helping to establish new KCA branches. [2] Birth records were not then kept among the Kikuyu, and Kenyatta's date of birth is not known. That is why we reject Communism. [491] Maloba observed that during the colonial period Kenyatta had embraced "radical Pan African activism" which differed sharply from the "deliberate conservative positions, especially on the question of African liberation" that he espoused while Kenya's leader. [190] They too increasingly called for further Kenyan autonomy from the British government, but wanted continued white-minority rule and closer links to the white-minority governments of South Africa, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia; they viewed Britain's newly elected Labour government with great suspicion. Both the amendments by these two Presidents were to remove them from the list of . [106] The British authorities were highly suspicious of Kenyatta's time in the Soviet Union, suspecting that he was a Marxist-Leninist, and following his return the MI5 intelligence service intercepted and read all his mail. Margaret is daughter to German beauty Magdalenna Gakuo and Njuguna Gakuo and sister to Maina Gakuo . They upset the life of the people. [509] Referring to Kenyatta's appearance in 1920s Kenya, Murray-Brown stated the leader presented himself to Europeans as "an agreeable if somewhat seedy 'Europeanized' native" and to indigenous Africans as "a sophisticated man-about-town about whose political earnestness they had certain reservations". [193], By 1952, Kenyatta was widely recognized as a national leader, both by his supporters and by his opponents. [460] McKenzie had been employed as a go-between,[451] and the structure of the funeral was orchestrated to deliberately imitate that of deceased British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. By Mumbi Mutuko on 27 November 2017 - 2:24 pm. [384] Although Kenyatta died without having attained the goal of free, universal primary education in Kenya, the country had made significant advances in that direction, with 85% of Kenyan children in primary education, and within a decade of independence had trained sufficient numbers of indigenous Africans to take over the civil service. [111] He also wrote the entry on Kenya for Negro, an anthology edited by Nancy Cunard and published in 1934. [534] In that book's dedication, Kenyatta invoked "ancestral spirits" as part of "the Fight for African Freedom. [337], Independent Kenya had an economy heavily molded by colonial rule; agriculture dominated while industry was limited, and there was a heavy reliance on exporting primary goods while importing capital and manufactured goods. [375] Kenyatta's government was eager to control the country's trade unions, fearing their ability to disrupt the economy. He had a mild stroke in 1966,[450] and a second in May 1968. [123], Kenyatta returned to his former dwellings at 95 Cambridge Street,[124] but did not pay his landlady for over a year, owing over 100 in rent. [142] In this book, Kenyatta made clear his belief that the rights of the individual should be downgraded in favour of the interests of the group. [43], Kenyatta's interest in politics stemmed from his friendship with James Beauttah, a senior figure in the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA). [306], A celebration to mark independence was held in a specially constructed stadium on 12 December 1963. [46] When the KCA wrote to Beauttah and asked him to travel to London as their representative, he declined, but recommended that Kenyattawho had a good command of Englishgo in his place. ", In November 1909, Kenyatta left home and enrolled as a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM) at Thogoto. [57], After the KCA raised sufficient funds, in February 1929 Kenyatta sailed from Mombasa to Britain. [468] As vice president, Moi was sworn in as acting president for a 90-day interim period. [252] It invited representatives of Kenya's anti-colonial movement to discuss the transition at London's Lancaster House. [194] A Luo anti-colonial activist, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was the first to publicly call for Kenyatta's release, an issue that gained growing support among Kenya's anti-colonialists. A British commission recommended a closer union of the three East African territories (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika). [268] In August he met with Renison at Kiambu,[269] and was interviewed by the BBC's Face to Face. [531] The Israeli diplomat Asher Naim visited him in this period, noting that although Kenyatta was "not a religious man, he was appreciative of the Bible". Kenya's first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta married four wives, Grace Wahu, Edna Clarke, Grace Wanjiku and Mama Ngina. [71], Kenyatta developed contacts with radicals to the left of the Labour Party, including several communists. [299], Kenya's first cabinet included not only Kikuyu but also members of the Luo, Kamba, Kisii, and Maragoli tribal groups. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid 1890s, is unclear. According to Ruth, the entire family paid a heavy price when the elder Kenyatta placed Jaramogi under house arrest. [505] He adopted his surname, "Kenyatta", after the name of a beaded belt he often wore in early life. In 1925 the EAA disbanded as a result of government pressures, and its members re-formed as the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA). [185] Kenyatta began to draw large crowds wherever he travelled in Kikuyuland,[186] and Kikuyu press began describing him as the "Saviour", "Great Elder", and "Hero of Our Race". [426] KANU retained the support of all national newspapers and the government-owned radio and television stations. [222], Kenyatta and the others were returned to Lokitaung, where they resided on remand while awaiting the results of the appeal process. [220] The historian Wunyabari O. Maloba later characterised it as "a rigged political trial with a predetermined outcome". JomoKenyatta.com aims to preserve the life of Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. [15] While there, Kenyatta stayed at the small boarding school, where he learnt stories from the Bible,[16] and was taught to read and write in English. He was one of the earliest of the Kikuyu to leave the confines of his own culture. [449], For many years, Kenyatta had suffered health problems. In October 1969 the government editors will review what youve submitted and whether. Mass media which probe into and make familiar all the social patterns of our human family are named after.... The film also allowed him to meet and befriend its star, the African-American Robeson. Sometime in the film also allowed him to meet and befriend its,... 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