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...later, Bell met Kenyatta in a village in northern Kenya. He was tall and dignified, and Bell remembers him manipulating a fly whisk with great style and grace. At first he spoke haltingly, "not because he was a gone alcoholic," Bell recalls, "but because he hadn't spoken English in seven years. By the end, he was speaking as the London School of Economics scholar of anthropology...
Griggs also recalls Kenyatta giving speeches in three languages: "He would lead off in deep, booming English for the whites, talking of how Kenyans should not resent foreigners but understand that they were in Kenya to help blacks develop...
...voluntary exile in London, and in 1929 and 1932 made side trips to the Soviet Union. To the British Foreign Office at the time, he seemed "a harmless individual if left alone, but apparently susceptible to outside influences." To his friends he was something of a dandy. He loved English suits and was equally adept at wheedling credit out of landladies and getting bright young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with...
...English 13. The English Bible...
...English 70. American Literature from the Beginning to World...