President Uhuru Kenyatta's friends from his days in Amherst College, a prestigious private liberal arts institution in Massachusetts opened up about his life at the school.
Nation contacted some of Amherst's alma mater to get a rare glimpse into the president's character back them.
One of the comrades at the institution opened up about how the young Kenyatta had to work in order to earn extra pocket money, despite being the son of Kenya's founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
Donald Loring Brown, 79, disclosed that Uhuru worked at the college's art museum.
Brown further expressed his disbelief when he learnt that his colleague at the museum was the son former President Jomo Kenyatta.
“It was then that we talked about his family and that is when I realised he was the son of a former president.
“He was kind of shy but very kind. He was a good student. I cannot say he was popular but the people who knew him liked him. Black students weren’t favoured. They banded together, ate together. I ate meals with them four or five times a week. I first met him in a dining hall with other students,” Brown who met Kenyatta in 1984 recalled.
The head of state was at this premium institution, which attracted the sons and daughters of the high and mighty from across the world, at a time when racism was really high in America.
A quiet, reserved but attentive student. That is how his classmates and professors remember him.
Kenyatta’s name appears in 1985’s Olio, the college’s official yearbook which highlighted key academic and sporting accomplishments during the academic year and contained the roll of students who graduated in that year.
