Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When first she went to Kenya 20 years ago, Elizabeth was a princess and Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta was the underground leader of the Mau Mau, then waging a bloody war against Europeans in the British colony. It was during that visit that George VI died and Elizabeth became Queen of England. Last week she returned to Africa and met Kenyatta for the first time on Kenya soil. Now President of his country, Jomo gave the Queen his nation's highest award-the Order of the Golden Heart. Elizabeth responded by investing her host with the Knight Grand Cross...
...himself from ordinary citizens and from most of the sights and sounds of the countries he visited, the Vice President delivered himself of some gratuitous remarks about blacks. Having met with three African leaders -Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the Congo's Joseph Mobutu and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta-Agnew told U.S. newsmen traveling with him that those Africans were "dedicated, enlightened, dynamic and extremely apt for the task that faces them." Then he added: "The quality of this leadership is in distinct contrast with many of those in the United States who have arrogated unto themselves...
...ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred briefly with President Jomo Kenyatta, later lunched with him and his ministers, and golfed...
...leaders. As in most new countries, the first Presidents and Premiers were primarily freedom fighters, with scant experience in statecraft. Still, few nations have leaders more dedicated or imaginative than Tanzania's Nyerere, Niger's Hamani Diori and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, like Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, is an elder statesman who has imposed a degree of stability on his heterogeneous country. Of the soldiers who now rule nine African nations, at least two-Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon and the Congo's Joseph Mobutu-have restored order...
...time of independence, crash courses were held in many African capitals to teach the wives of government officials the niceties of Western manners. The handsome Ngina Kenyatta, fourth wife of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, 79, is an African answer to Eliza Doolittle. She is said to have spent a year being coached by British instructors in deportment, table manners, fashion, ballroom dancing and public speaking before emerging as "Mama...