Before power came alongside his prime ministerial presidential positions, founding father Jomo Kenyatta was so broke that he was making funny considerations.
According to Murray Brown in his book "Kenyatta", at around 1931, then living in Britain, Kenyatta had nothing to his name that he was considering becoming a musician.
Kenyatta who was a student at the London's Quacker College in Wood broke was living in a room at 75 Castle Road and was developing the idea that music would salvage him.
"Kenyatta was then studying in London’s Quaker College in Woodbroke. He was so broke he toyed with the idea of being a musician," writes Murray.
But things would change when he become president after the 1963 independence from the British, which saw him climb the ranks to emerge among the riches persons in Kenya.
This had also been accompanied by claims that he grabbed pieces of land across the nation, which are yet to be proved.
Despite his stay in Britain, Kenyatta would only make one trip to the country during his 15 year tenure, when he attended the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference in July 1964.
However, the visit took a pathetic turn when he was roughed up in the streets by Former British National Socialist Party Secretary John Tyndall.