How did Jomo Kenyatta get involved in politics?

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Throughout the 1920s Jomo Kenyatta immersed himself in the movement against a white-settler-dominated Kenyan government. As a member of the Kikuyu people, he traveled to London in 1929 to protest the British government’s recommendation that its East African territories be more closely united at the expense of Kikuyu interests. He successfully stalled plans for the union.