Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of Moi's trouble may be of his own making. After he was elected in 1979 as the successor to Kenya's legendary founding father Jomo Kenyatta, the new President was praised by observers for his relatively liberal approach to politics. But in the past six months Moi has shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader...
...yachts and sports cars than beads and mirrors. In many subSaharan nations, a favorite scheme is to create a lucrative job in a project for an official's relatives or friends. For years the British-based Lonrho Ltd. trading house kept its Kenyan operations running smoothly with President Jomo Kenyatta's son-in-law as its head. When Kenyatta died in 1978, that connection no longer counted for much. Complains a foreign businessman in Nairobi: "Now there is a whole new set of people to deal with-and they all are asking for far more money...
...bizarre subject matter" is cultural anthropology to which I was introduced by Malinowski in the 1930s. I met Jomo Kenyatta and read Facing Mt. Kenya. For the first time I learned about female circumcision. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia XX, 1964, by Professor C.G. Widstand, director of the Scandinavian Africa Institute. His paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence...
...spent most of my life since my youth in foreign countries (S. Asia, Africa, and the Americas) in both academic, United Nations and independent research. My "bizarre subject matter" is cultural anthropology to which I was introduced by Bronislaw Malinowski in the 1930s. At the same time I met Jomo Kenyatta, who let me read the papers which later were published in "Facing Mt. Kenya." For the first time I learned about female circumcision, but it was never my subject. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia Ethnographica Upaliensia XX, 1964. The author...