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...Parliament at his home in Nairobi, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta jovially announced that he will ask Parliament for constitutional amendments that will make Kenya a one-party republic. If Parliament refused, he added, he would call a national referendum in November. Since his Kenya African National Union party (KANU) represents the nation's two largest tribal groups, there is little chance he would lose the referendum...
...unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights. According to rank, hundreds of other comrades were billeted...
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...
...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...