Kenya's founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta kept an Ethiopian flag in his room while he was studying at Quaker College, London in 1931.
Kenyatta who had very few friends in his lifetime was a good friend of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie.
Their friendship is said to have started long before the two become Head of States in their respective countries.
Jeremy Murray-Brown in his 1972 biography of Kenyatta notes that Mzee kept a red, green and gold Ethiopian flag in his room at 75 Castle Road a year after Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor.
Their friendship continued even after they became Head of States. Kenyatta, who loathed flying, is said to have made only one foreign trip in the 14 years he was in power. The trip was to Ethiopia to visit Haile Selassie in 1969.
During the visit, the founding father was honoured with a military drill where his name Jomo was spelt in the sky using fighter jets. He was also gifted with a white poodle.
However, Lee Njiru who worked at State House as an information officer revealed that Kenyatta wasn't fond of the dog in the beginning but came to like it to the extent of buying it a Mercedes Benz 280S.
"Kenyatta was not very fond of pets but because of his friendship with the Emperor, he bought that dog a Mercedes 280S. Whenever he went to Mombasa it used to sit back-left and it had its own driver," said Njiru in a past interview with NTV.
Their friendship is also said to be why Kenyatta named one of the three avenues in Nairobi after Haile Selassie.
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