Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to absorb Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta has overridden the intense tribal rival ries of the Luo and his own Kikuyu and made a national fetish out of harambee (togetherness), winning the good will of most white settlers in the bargain. Even the disappointments have not been total. The personal tyranny of Ghana's Nkrumah...
...injured, and 187 arrested. The cause, Locher and Wagner hinted persistently, lay in an organized conspiracy. Cleveland does have its Black Muslim Temple of Islam (No. 18). There was at least one representative of the pro-Castro Revolutionary Action Movement in town. A group called the J.F.K. House-for Jomo Freedom Kenyatta and John F. Kennedy-is suspected of running a Hough-headquartered training school in street warfare...
...Ghana Ambassador F. S. Arkhurst, chairman (for July) of the bloc that speaks for much of black Africa, named a subcommittee to explore the group's next action. "It is evident that no reasonable accommodation is possible," Arkhurst warned. "Violence cannot be ruled out." In Kenya, President Jomo Kenyatta's party called for "militant and violent" revolution in South West Africa. In Tanzania, Political Exile Peter Nanyemba, the bearded, fiery-eyed chief of the South West Africa People's Organization, told newsmen that his country had no alternative "but to rise in arms and bring about...
Main target of Jomo's wrath was not Odinga but rather Bildad Kaggia, the lone Kikuyu in the KPU's Luo-dominated upper ranks. Kaggia, roared Kenyatta, was a captive of the Communists, a liar, a cheat and a lover of "black necks"-a derogatory Kikuyu reference to the darker-skinned Luo. Moreover, suggested Jomo in the ultimate Kikuyu insult, he suspected that Kaggia was not even circumcised. Kaggia was crushed by an 18,000-vote KANU plurality...
...face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...