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...Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta is my Man of the Year...
...four rangy Africans. Each was clad in animal skins, armed with sharp-bladed pangas and wearing his hair in long braids smeared with red mud - the fighting insignia of the Mau Mau terrorists. The crowd fell silent as the four approached the dais where sat Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta and his honored guest, Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. With his lumbering, elephant walk, Kenyatta descended from the dais, pushed through his startled security guards, and greeted the Mau Mau. "Kenya is free now," he said. "There is no need to hide or fight." Peacefully, the four...
...Foreign Minister Chen Yi to India's Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts. Queen Elizabeth gave Kenyatta the royal lodge at Sagana; the Aga Khan turned over to him his own former residence; a group of U.S. businessmen donated a white Lincoln Continental...
...Europe and at least partly organized by DuBois. These meetings, held in the capitals of Europe, began to include African leaders and were part of the beginnings of the modern emancipation of Africa. A 1945 pan-African conference in England enabled DuBois to meet such men as Nkrumah and Kenyatta. This American contact with Africa not only aided the struggling colonies and made DuBois beloved by all African peoples, but also brought home to DuBois and other American Negroes an awareness of their vast heritage and a growth of Negro interest in African affairs and African culture...
When he finished, the white farmers roared Kenyatta's battle cry of "Harambee!", a Swahili expression meaning "Let's all push together-get up and go." Not all were won over. But most decided to stay in Kenya so long as Jomo Kenyatta continued saying and doing the right things. His speech, said Farmer Leader Lord Delamere, was a "unique and historic" event...