Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill Russell will be a controversial coach. Russell would be controversial in any color. Often arrogant, usually angry, always outspoken, he is a born boat rocker-"all hung up," in the words of his close friend and archrival, Wilt Chamberlain. He named his four-year-old daughter Kenyatta after Jomo Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign autographs because...
...huffily over the question of seating Ghana's new government. Even such a simple task as forging a united opposition to white-ruled Rhodesia has proved beyond African capability. Pride and pretentiousness are part of the trouble, but last week in Nairobi, where Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta and ten other African leaders sat down to discuss their problems, their goal was sensibly limited and their communiqué refreshingly modest...
Tense Frontiers. Greeting his guests at Nairobi's Embakasi Airport, Jomo looked jaunty with a yellow rose in his lapel, a fly whisk in one hand and a gold-tipped ebony walking stick in the other. But there was reason for concern: almost all of the guests had grievances with at least one of the others. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie and Somalia's Premier Abdirazak Hussein were hardly on the best of terms now that raids and murder had resumed along the frontier they share. Burundi's Premier Leopold Biha kept well clear...
...were posted all the way down to the houseboy level. "It should be noted that guests from Ethiopia are partial to good strong coffee," read one notice. The leaders met in Kenyatta's library-the most soundproof room in the mansion. There was purposely no agenda, for, as Jomo said: "That would have deprived us of spontaneity...
Ever since Kenya became independent two years ago, Jomo Kenyatta's rallying cry has been harambee -Swahili for "all pull together." Most Kenyans have been quite happy to put aside their tribal and political rivalries and give pulling together a try. The notable exception: Oginga Odinga, 54, Vice President of the nation, deputy president of its only political party and leader of the powerful Luo tribe. A wealthy and ambitious leftist who disagrees violently with Kenyatta's moderate policies, Odinga has spent the past two years trying to pull his own government apart...