Kenya African National Union

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Kenya African National Union
Abbreviation	KANU
Chairman	Gideon Moi
Secretary-General	Tom Mboya
Spokesperson	Pasta Kinoti M'Ndungata
Founder	James Gichuru Oginga Odinga Tom Mboya
Founded	14 May 1960 (14 May 1960)
Merger of	KAU KIM NPCP
Headquarters	Chania Avenue, off Ring Road, Kilimani, Nairobi
Newspaper	Uhuru
Student wing	KANU Youth League
Ideology	Kenyan nationalism Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
National affiliation	Amani Alliance
Regional affiliation	Democrat Union of Africa
Colors	Red, green, black
National Assembly	5 / 349
Senate	0 / 67
Party flag
Website
kanuparty.org
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The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a Kenyan political party that ruled for nearly 40 years after Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963 until its electoral loss in 2002. It was known as Kenya African Union (KAU) from 1944 but due to pressure from the colonial government, KAU changed its name to Kenya African Study Union (KASU) mainly because all political parties were banned in 1939 following the start of the Second World War. In 1946 KASU rebranded itself into KAU following the resignation of Harry Thuku as president due to internal differences between the moderates who wanted peaceful negotiations and the militants who wanted to use force, the latter forming the Aanake a forty (The forty Group), which later became the Mau Mau. His post was then occupied by James Gichuru, who stepped down for Jomo Kenyatta in 1947 as president of KAU. The KAU was banned by the colonial government from 1952 to 1960.^[1] It was re-established by James Gichuru in 1960 and renamed KANU on 14 May 1960 after a merger with Tom Mboya's Kenya Independence Movement.^[2]