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...death of Jomo Kenyatta last week, which raised questions about the future of Kenya, evoked sharp memories for a trio of TIME writers and correspondents who covered the African leader at different stages of his long and spectacular career...
...executive of the London-based conglomerate Lonrho, Ltd. Rowland has transformed a small initial stake in Africa into one of the continent's biggest commercial empires. Among his friends are Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya -not to mention Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia...
...England, at the hub of the British Empire, that Robeson discovered Africa, and learned about the black Africans' struggle against European colonialism. He stayed up nights talking with Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who were then students in London. He also witnessed the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany at close range; in 1938 Robeson went to Spain and sang for anti-Franco International Brigade, and was named one of only three honorary members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His political consciousness aroused and troubled by Franco, Hitler and African colonialism, Robeson began to look back across the Atlantic...
...Rwanda and Burundi, which are both the poorest and most densely populated African countries (total pop. 8,300,000 in an area smaller than West Virginia), are too wrapped up in their own tribal rivalries to pay much attention to tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator...
...speaking with far greater candor about the substance of the proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable President Jomo Kenyatta. Led into the midst of 300 tribal dancers by his host, Kissinger attempted a few fumbling steps of his own before begging off with a quip: "Those who have seen me dance will know that we are in need of technical assistance from Kenya...