4/20/2023 0 Comments Dark sheep guitar heroMorello graduated from high school with honors in June 1982 and enrolled at Harvard University as a political science student that autumn. He also wrote a piece headlined "South Africa: Racist Fascism That We Support" for the school alternative newspaper, The Student Pulse. In the 1980 mock elections at Libertyville, he campaigned for a fictitious anarchist "candidate" named Hubie Maxwell, who came in fourth place in the election. Morello developed left-leaning political proclivities early, and has described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school", and has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist. Morello sang in the school choir and was active in the speech and drama clubs a prominent role he played was that of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was the homeroom teacher for Morello's classmate and fellow guitarist Adam Jones, later of the band Tool. Morello was raised by his mother in Libertyville, Illinois and attended Libertyville High School, where his mother was a U.S. When Morello was 16 months old, Njoroge returned to his native Kenya and denied his paternity of his son. After discovering her pregnancy, Mary Morello returned to the United States with Njoroge in November and married in New York City. His parents met in August 1963 while attending a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya. His aunt, Jemimah Gecaga, was the first woman to serve in the legislature of Kenya and his uncle Njoroge Mungai was a Kenyan Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament, and was considered one of the founding fathers of modern Kenya. Morello's paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president of Kenya. His father participated in the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) and was Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations. His mother was a schoolteacher from Marseilles, Illinois, who earned a Master of Arts at Loyola University, Chicago and traveled to Germany, Spain, Japan, and Kenya as an English language teacher between 19. Morello, an only child, is the son of an American mother of Italian and Irish descent and a Kenyan Kikuyu father. Thomas Baptist Morello was born on in Harlem, New York to parents Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello.
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