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Murumbi Joseph

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He was Kenya’s first Foreign Minister. In September 1966, hardly six months after President Jomo Kenyatta appointed him Kenya’s second Vice President, he resigned following the assassination of his close friend and socialist strategist, Pio Gama Pinto. He would devote the rest of his life collecting works of African art. By the time he died in 1990, he had put together the largest private collection of African art, crafts and books in the world. Part of that collection is now on permanent exhibition at the Kenya National Archives in Nairobi.