AFRICANGLOBE - Kenya on Friday marked 51 years since it gained independence from Britain in 1963. A ceremony on Friday marking the occasion was attended by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama. Kenyatta, for his part, used the occasion to reflect on a string of attacks in the country that had left more than 300 people dead since last year.