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Peter Mbiyu Koinange [ 1 ] — 3 September was a politician from Kenya. He served in the government and cabinet of Jomo Kenyatta , Kenya's first president, for 16 years. His elder sister, Isabella, was one of Kenya's first trained African nurses, while his younger brother, Charles Karuga Koinange , served as a colonial chief and was a civil servant in independent Kenya for more than 30 years.

He was also brother to Grace Wanjiku, Jomo Kenyatta 's third wife. Mbiyu Koinange moved to the United States in for studying. Upon his return to return to Kenya and in consultation with his father, Koinange Wa Mbiyu , Mbiyu Koinange decided to create an African-run, community owned college, modeled on his alma mater Hampton Institute and on Tuskegee University.

Mbiyu Koinange was the principal of this Kenya Teachers College situated at Githunguri, the site of the first independent elementary school founded by Musa Ndirangu. In , just as a state of emergency was decreed in Kenya and the Kapenguria Six and many others, notably associated with the KTC, were arrested, Mbuyi Koinange was in England representing the Kenya African Union, thus narrowly escaping arrest himself.

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