Word: kanu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jomo Kenyatta made the giant step from prisoner to Prime Minister with the help of his KANU (Kenya African National Union) Party, which last week won a landslide victory in Kenya's national elections, capturing 66 of 117 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of 41 seats in the Senate. Kenyatta not only defeated Ronald Ngala's rival KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They...
...seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance of making delay palatable: Malcolm MacDonald, 61, a famed proconsul who has helped nurse more infant nations through independence than almost any other British official...
...crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party in next year's elections...
...KANU's boss, Jomo is not only out of jail and rehabilitated, but is also the hottest prospect to be Kenya's first ruler when the colony becomes a nation, possibly within a year. So far, the electioneering has been fairly moderate, but trouble is threatened by something called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim...
...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...