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Through it all, Kenyatta remained something of an enigma. He changed his reputation at least as often as he altered his name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...
...ruling People's Congress had just approved his "Common Man's Charter," which was designed to turn his country into a socialist one-party state. While the army band blared out the party song, "Uganda Is Marching Forward," three shots rang out. Obote, 44, a onetime herdboy who led his country (pop. 8,000,000) to independence seven years ago, clutched his head and fell. In the crowd, women moaned and groveled on the ground, and party officials beat the air in rage...
...herdboy on his father's tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they were human and he their chief, he soon discovered that keeping them in order required him both to prod them along and win their cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence...
...election time in two important areas of Africa. In steaming Uganda, a black former herdboy was picked to steer the divided little land toward independence Oct. 9. In the sprawling Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, a white, burly former locomotive engineer won another chance to pull his disintegrating country together. The shoo-in victors...
...little Odin is taken by his mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna...
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