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Daniel arap Moi

President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002

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Daniel Toroitich arap MoiCGH (MOH-ee; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020)^[2] was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.

He is the country's longest-serving president to date. Moi previously served as the third vice president of Kenya from 1967 to 1978 under President Jomo Kenyatta, becoming the president following the latter's death.^[3]

Born into the Tugen sub-group of the Kalenjin people in the Kenyan Rift Valley, Moi studied as a boy at the Africa Inland Mission school before training as a teacher at the Tambach teachers training college, working in that profession until 1955.

He then entered politics and was elected a member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. As independence approached, Moi joined the K