Kenya's first post-independence leader, Jomo Kenyatta, president from 1964 until 1978, was a Kikuyu.
He demanded the removal from office of the previous president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the country's principal post-independence leader.
Mr Daddah, 65, an economist and brother of Mauritania's first post-independence leader, unsuccessfully ran against Mr Taya in 1992 and 2003.
In the 19th century Uruguay's newly-won independence was followed by a prolonged and ruinous conflict between two political factions - the land-owning Blancos (whites) and the urban Colorados (reds).
Ahead of the Scottish government's independence referendum - planned for autumn 2014 - Mr Darling went on to say there were positive reasons why the UK should stay as it is.
Again, in an effort to distance itself from the likes of Brian Cox and Alan Cumming's contribution to pro-independence argument, the Better Together film featured the voices of people living across Scotland, from all professions and walks of life.
Gingrich said Sunday that he thinks Romney will adopt some of the positions that he's advocated -- energy independence, personal Social Security accounts -- the "Chilean model" that he has pushed -- keeping the government from trying to impose itself on religious values and paying down the debt.
Belize's independence was delayed by a long-running border dispute with Guatemala, which refused to recognise its neighbour's independence until 1992.
The other point which needs to be made is that this "war against corruption" - exaggerated by many as India's second war of independence and similar hyperbole - is being seen by many as the high noon of Indian activism and civil society movement.
So instead America's negotiators tried to create obstacles to the court's independence within the complex 200-page treaty setting it up.
Francisco Macias Nguema's reign of terror - from independence in 1968 until his overthrow in 1979 - prompted a third of the population to flee.
None of India's previous five big post-independence droughts caused famine.
Madrid's refusal came after pro-independence demonstrations that saw 1.5 million people on the streets of Barcelona and Mr Mas has called the election to get a mandate to hold a referendum.
South Sudan is one of the world's poorest regions - it gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 and has hardly any roads, railways, schools or clinics following two decades of conflict, which have left it awash with weapons.
Arab leaders as diverse as Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal have decried South Sudan's independence.
It is probably worth pointing out at this juncture that Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and proponent of Scottish independence, supported RBS's ill-judged takeover in 2007 of the bulk of ABN Amro, the deal which massively increased both RBS's size and precariousness.
His centre-right, pro-Denmark Union Party and its coalition partner, the centre-right and pro-independence People's Party both received an increased share of the vote in elections in October 2011.
He has published a memoir under the title My First Coup d'Etat, in which he describes his time growing up in post-independence Ghana, including his father's imprisonment during the coup that overthrew independence leader Kwame Nkrumah.
John L. Hennessy, who took office as the university's president effective Sept. 1, is facing one of the toughest tests in the school's 109-year history: to maintain the university's influence and independence amid a business community moving so fast it threatens to relegate Stanford to little more than an electrical engineering farm team.
Or maybe it was Mohandas Gandhi, India's Independence leader who established non-violence as a global political force?
The interview - aired on the state al-Ikhbariya TV channel - comes on Syria's independence day, marking the end of French rule in 1946.
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has veered from being one of the country's most powerful politicians in its post-independence history to living a quiet life of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.
There are fears that Hungary's new data protection authority will come under Fidesz influence and that a plan to make 274 judges retire early will undermine the judiciary's independence by enabling new pro-Fidesz appointees to replace them.
The high profile elevation of Salman Khurshid as the new foreign minister - only the third Muslim to hold the position since Independence - is a deft nod to Congress's faith in India's plurality.
One is to the bank's statutory independence in pursuit of its treaty-prescribed goal of price stability.
The party's mild-mannered candidate is campaigning not for independence but on a classic by-election slogan: as a chance to protest against Labour.
The TV generation's financial independence is not lost on hard-selling consumer-goods manufacturers.
Mr Spielberg and David Geffen, the studio's co-founders, want to regain their independence when their contract with Viacom ends, and are looking for funding.
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The Catalan branches of Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party -- which opposes independence -- gained one seat, for a total 19 in the new parliament.
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