Joseph Murumbi

Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi (1911–June 22, 1990) was Kenya's second Vice-President, serving between May and December 1966. He was a child of a Goan trader and a Maasai woman, and he spent the first 16 years of his life in India. The declaration of the state of emergency on October 20, 1952, saw the detention of the top two levels of leadership within the Kenya African Union (KAU), and Murumbi found himself thrust into the center of the party's leadership, as acting secretary-general.