Jomo Kenyatta took his son out of the church school at Thogota and enrolled him in a KCA-approved, independent school. In May 1931, Kenyatta and Parmenas Mockerie sailed for Britain, intent on representing the KCA at a joint select committee of parliament on the future of East Africa. Kenyatta would not return to Kenya for fifteen years. In Britain, he spent the summer attending an Independent Labour Party summer school and Fabian Society gatherings. In June, he visited Geneva, Switzerland to attend a Save the Children conference on African children. In November, he met the Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi while in
Jomo Kenyatta East Africa, Kenyatta relocated to Nairobi where he worked in a store selling farming and engineering equipment. In the evenings, he took classes in a Church Mission School. Several months later he returned to Thika before obtaining employment building houses for the Thogota Mission. He also lived for a time in Dagoretti, where he became a retainer for a local sub-chief, Kioi; in 1919 he assisted Kioi in putting the latter's case in a land dispute before a Nairobi court. Kenyatta wanted a wife, although his first attempt failed when it was revealed that his proposed bride was related to