Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta is my Man of the Year...
Only a few years ago, Kenya's whites raged against Jomo Kenyatta as the bloodthirsty founder of Mau Mau. In 1961, a governor of Kenya labeled Kenyatta "a leader to darkness and death." On a London visit in 1962, Kenyatta was pelted with rotten eggs by white extremists brandishing placards reading, "Hang Kenyatta!" Yet last week, as his country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kenyatta was a hero to most of Kenya's remaining white farmers...
When he finished, the white farmers roared Kenyatta's battle cry of "Harambee!", a Swahili expression meaning "Let's all push together-get up and go." Not all were won over. But most decided to stay in Kenya so long as Jomo Kenyatta continued saying and doing the right things. His speech, said Farmer Leader Lord Delamere, was a "unique and historic" event...
...Nairobi, newly elected Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta presided over a meeting of his neighbors. On one side sat Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, grinning cheerfully be neath his toothbrush mustache; on the other, Tanganyika's high-spirited President Julius Nyerere. Present as an observer: Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdullahi Issa. From three hours of talk emerged the decision to work for a federation of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, with Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi also invited...
...Jomo Kenyatta made the giant step from prisoner to Prime Minister with the help of his KANU (Kenya African National Union) Party, which last week won a landslide victory in Kenya's national elections, capturing 66 of 117 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of 41 seats in the Senate. Kenyatta not only defeated Ronald Ngala's rival KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They...