Uhuru Kenyatta was elected president of Kenya this week. Kenya/Kenyatta, that sounds like a coincidence. Hey, former Winnipeg Blue Bomber Tom Canada, have you considered politics?
But seriously, I seem to remember that Kenya was named after its founder, so I wondered if Mr. Kenyatta is related. News reports didn't say anything, so I went to Wikipedia. I found that he is indeed, the son of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. And (unless pranksters have simultaneously hit several sites around the net) it turns out he is also second cousin, once removed, to Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave.
(And Kenyatta is named after the country, not the other way around.)
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