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The assassination of Pinto illustrated to
Murumbi the shocking extent to which the new government had departed from its promises. His feeling, evidently, was that these were not the principles for which so many had suffered, and his departure (from the new political order in power) was only a matter
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City Park. The unmarked grave was subject to neglect, vandalism and theft through the late 1990s and early 2000s, and had at one time been threatened with being lost altogether when a building development scheme was considered for the site of the grave, until it was protected by the creation around
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in the late 1960s and 1970s. Murumbi also became further alienated from the new Kenyan governing order when Pio Gama Pinto, a close personal friend and key political philosophical mentor of
Murumbi's, was murdered in April 1965 after he had become a public critic of it. As Pheroze Nowrojee stated:
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in 1966 for nine months. However, around this time
Murumbi became uneasy with what he perceived as Kenyatta's increasing authoritarianism in dealing with political opponents, and the increasing corruption that he witnessed rapidly developing within the new Kenyan government order, and subsequently
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in Kenya on 20 October 1952 saw the detention of senior figures of the Kenya
African Union's leadership, and Murumbi found himself thrust into the center of the party's leadership as its acting Secretary-General. He played a key role in securing legal counsel for the detainees arrested in the
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Murumbi married Sheila, a librarian whom he met whilst he was a political exile from Kenya in
England in the late 1950s. They lived in Kenya subsequently on an estate in the Muthaiga district. She died in 2000.
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Murumbi became the acting chairman of the Kenyan National Archives, and later co-founded 'African Heritage' with Alan Donovan, which went on to become the largest
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November 1966 through which was officially announced at the time to be on account of ill health, Murumbi withdrew from politics.
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In 1982 he seriously injured himself in a fall at his home, and was reliant upon a wheelchair in his final years. He died on 22 June 1990 in his 79th year. Murumbi's body was buried in
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medicine man. His parents broke up when he was a toddler. His father married a Goan widow named Ezalda Clara
Albuquerque, who already had nine children. He was then sent away to
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established a library containing some of the 8000 rare books (published before 1900) entrusted to them upon the death of Murumbi. The
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He was an avid art collector, and during his life acquired over 50,000 books and sheaves of official correspondence. The
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