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Teetering between the rival factions in Kenya's one-party government, President Jomo Kenyatta for months let pro-Communist Vice President Oginga Odinga have his way more often than seemed wise. For one thing, Moscow had financed the Lumumba Institute seven miles outside Nairobi, providing two Russian instructors in the Leninist art of political action. Then Odinga negotiated a deal for a shipload of Soviet arms for Kenya, which the Russians seemed only too eager to provide absolutely free of charge. Odinga meanwhile hustled around making anti-Western speeches, and verbally sniping at the more moderate members of Kenyatta...
...this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social and ultimately democratic reforms. Even that old tribal chief Jomo Kenyatta has so far proved an adroit democrat; though he maneuvered the opposition out of business, all elements of Kenya are represented in his one-party government...
Whether smuggling was involved or not, the recent exchange brought to the surface the conflict that has long been raging within the government of President Jomo Kenyatta. Vice President Oginga Odinga, wealthy, 53-year-old leader of the Luo tribe, which forms an important part of Kenyatta's KANU party coalition, has been openly attempting to turn the new nation toward Communism. He is opposed by a faction of moderates, including Roland Ngala, leader of the now extinct KADU opposition party, and Kenyatta's Economic Planning Minister Tom Mboya, which has been looking for a way to clip...
...rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo's head to confer the university's first honorary degree. "Do we call you 'doctor' now?" a friend...
Recent talks between Presidents Christopher Gbenye, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Lyere, and Premier Milton Obote marked the beginning of African solidarity and a concerted effort to nip in the bud such crude and blatant neocolonialism in Africa. The fate of Tshombe is clearly discernable. In the next few months Congolese nationalists will be well armed and trained, and it will be extremely difficult for Tshombe and his American, Belgian, and South African mercenaries to hold their...