Word: kenyatta
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...climax came when Kenyatta got into his new car and was driven to Uhuru Stadium. At five minutes before midnight, as Kenyatta rose to take part in the flag-raising ceremony, Prince Philip whispered jokingly to him, "Are you sure you wouldn't like to change your mind now?" Smiling, Kenyatta shook his head and, accompanied by Britain's Governor Malcolm MacDonald (who will stay on as Governor-General), walked to the two flagpoles in the center of the stadium. In order to spare British onlookers all possible anguish, Kenyatta had tactfully ordered that the lights be dimmed...
...Problems. Despite his estimated 73 years (he claims not to be sure of his birth date), and frequent signs of fatigue, Kenyatta is still tall and broad-shouldered, his eyes huge and piercing. In his time he has been a farm boy, student, laborer, meter-reader, respected anthropologist, headmaster, convicted terrorist and, for decades, the unparalleled idol of millions of Africans. The country he now rules carries most of its old ills into independence...
...Kenyatta himself has hardly shown any Communist sympathies, but his Home Minister, Oginga Odinga, is a left-winger who has already set up a state news agency with Russian and Czech help. He is perhaps balanced by Justice Minister Tom Mboya, who is at present politically in the shade, but remains strongly nationalist and generally pro-Western...
...home, Kenyatta must reckon with a population that is soaring at an annual rate of 3.4%, and though the government intends within five years to settle 50,000 African families on a million acres in the "White Highlands" bought from European settlers with $80 million supplied by Britain, by that time an additional 100,000 families will be clamoring for land. Kenya's huge labor surplus must idly await the slow development of industry, and there is a great lack of trained professionals to replace the departing whites. For example, Kenya has 750 doctors but needs at least...
...Outlook. Painstakingly, Kenyatta pleads with his people to accept Harambee, a Swahili word meaning "pull together." He tells Africans that they must concede full partnership to whites and Asians, and tells his own dominant Kikuyu tribe that they must work amiably with other tribes. The opposition KADU Party, which elected only 31 of the 130-member House of Representatives, is falling apart as more and more of its own Representatives climb on the Kenyatta bandwagon, lured by government jobs and patronage. As a result, Kenya will probably become a typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent...