Kenya: Grandson of Kenyatta Wins Seat in U.S. Mid-Term Elections

7 November 2018

His grandfather changed his name from Donald Brooks Jackson to Muhammad Kenyatta in the early 1970s.

A grandson to a former American professor and civil rights leader who changed his name to honour his hero, Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta, won a seat on Wednesday in the United States elections.

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