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Only a few years ago, Kenya's whites raged against Jomo Kenyatta as the bloodthirsty founder of Mau Mau. In 1961, a governor of Kenya labeled Kenyatta "a leader to darkness and death." On a London visit in 1962, Kenyatta was pelted with rotten eggs by white extremists brandishing placards reading, "Hang Kenyatta!" Yet last week, as his country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kenyatta was a hero to most of Kenya's remaining white farmers...
...Nakuru, capital of the former white highlands, 400 farmers crowded the town hall to hear him, determined to base their decision to leave Kenya or to stay on what he had to tell them (in the past two years, 6,000 have left, but 60,000 remain). Kenyatta appealed to the whites to forgive and forget, to join hands with his three-month-old African government and prove that different racial groups can live harmoniously together...
...There is no society of angels, black, brown or white," said Kenyatta. "We are human beings and as such we are bound to make mistakes. If I have done a mistake to you, it is for you to forgive me. If you have done a mistake to me, it is for me to forgive you." He assured the white settlers that they would be allowed to farm their land without interference, though the government will use idle land, and promised more police action to prevent the stealing of cattle...
...Nairobi, newly elected Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta presided over a meeting of his neighbors. On one side sat Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, grinning cheerfully be neath his toothbrush mustache; on the other, Tanganyika's high-spirited President Julius Nyerere. Present as an observer: Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdullahi Issa. From three hours of talk emerged the decision to work for a federation of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, with Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi also invited...
...have a common history, culture and customs which make our unity both logical and natural," declared Kenyatta, thereby seeming to refute old charges that he was parochially interested only in pushing the fortunes of his Kikuyu tribe, the most numerous in Kenya. "We reject tribalism, racialism or inward-looking policies." The East African Federation, which may be launched when Kenya gains full independence, probably later this year, could eventually become a nation of 25 million people, the third largest in Africa. There is no clear notion yet as to who will run the federation or how tight it will...