Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature is a biennial literary award given by the Kenya Publishers' Association. It has been called "the most prestigious literary award in the country". The first award was in 1974, however due to financial constraints it was unable to continue. In 1990 the award was revived with sponsorship from the Text Book Centre, and the first prize given in 1992. Beginning in 2015 the award's official name was changed to Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature. 1974 1992 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Jomo Kenyatta own wishes". Kenyatta expressed this in his statement that "I have stood always for the purposes of human dignity in freedom, and for the values of tolerance and peace." This approach was similar to the Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda's ideology of "African humanism". Murray-Brown noted that "Kenyatta had always kept himself free from ideological commitments", while the historian William R. Ochieng observed that "Kenyatta articulated no particular social philosophy". Similarly, Assensoh noted that Kenyatta was "not interested in social philosophies and slogans". Various commentators and biographers described him as being politically conservative, an ideological viewpoint likely bolstered by his training