Word: kenyatta
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...leaving his wife and infant son Peter behind, Kenyatta returned to Kenya to work for African self-rule. He soon emerged as the strongest of the colony's black political leaders, and within a few years was caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a series of terrorist murders in 1952, the colonial government ordered his arrest and charged him with being the mastermind behind the Mau Mau organization. He was convicted in a sort of political show trial and sent off to nine years of detention and restriction...
...time Kenyatta was released in 1961, Kenya was only two years away from independence, and Mzee was clearly the man to lead it. "I know why I was imprisoned and I have no bitterness," he declared in 1963, and he proceeded to turn Kenya into the kind of multiracial state he had long envisioned. He encouraged foreign investment, promoted land development, education and public health...
...Mama Ngina, 48, multiplied enormously. Together they controlled Nairobi's lucrative gambling casino, plus coffee and sisal plantations, manufacturing concerns, downtown office buildings and coastal resorts. His government's reputation was further damaged by the political murders of Planning Minister Tom Mboya, once regarded as a possible successor to Kenyatta, and Kikuyu dissident Politician Josiah M. Kariuki. Both men died under circumstances that have never been fully explained...
...Kenyatta could also be brutal in dealing with official misbehavior?even other people's corruption, if he thought it excessive. Two years ago, he summoned an assistant minister to his office. "Come sit by me, close," said Kenyatta. "Now what is your name...
...startled minister stated his name. Kenyatta rapped the minister across the ears with his heavy walking stick. "Now," said Kenyatta smiling, "what is your name again?" The minister repeated it. Again the old President struck him hard across the head. "And what do they call you in the street?" the President asked...