Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanganyika, due south of Kenya, Britain's Governor Sir Richard Turnbull announced constitutional changes giving Africans virtual home rule by late next year. Elections in September will be broadened to include more than 500,000 voters (v. 60,000 currently eligible), and 50 of the 71 seats in the Legislative Council will be open to candidates of any race, with ten reserved for white and eleven for Asians and Arabs. Since they represent 98.6% of the population, Africans will easily win control of the Legislature, and dominate the elected executive, the Ministerial Council (Britain will retain Defense, Finance, Foreign...
...black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black...
...year ago, young Tom Mboya from Kenya was the toast of Accra, enjoying the benevolent patronage of that would-be leader of emerging Africa, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. The principal difference between the two men is that Nkrumah is the unchallenged boss of an independent nation of 5,000,000, almost all of them black, while Mboya, in the multiracial British colony of Kenya, is merely the leading African politician in a government where the whites run things. When Nkrumah held his All-Africa Peoples Conference, he propelled Labor Leader Mboya into the chairmanship...
Though the emergency would officially be over, some key temporary powers would be transferred onto Kenya's regular statute books, including permits for political meetings and restrictions on forming African political parties. Said Sir Patrick: "I hope experience will show me that I do not need the use of these controls...
Though one Kenya African leader grumped that his people would never be satisfied until Jomo Kenyatta is free, and some white settlers were alarmed at the impending release of hundreds of Mau Mau murderers, Harold Macmillan's new Colonial Secretary, bright, ambitious Iain Macleod, intends a bolder, more liberal approach to Britain's colonial problems in Africa. As one indication of the new trend in British colonial policy, Prime Minister Macmillan himself drove out to London Airport last week to welcome one of the most outspoken of new African leaders, President Sékou Touré of newly...