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...colony's black nationalists, had more to swallow last week. They had accepted an increased political role for the Africans in the hopes that moderates would come to power and learn gradually the art of governing. But after eight years in prison and exile, extremist Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the organizer of the Mau Mau terror, proved himself once again the most powerful man in Kenya...
...Kenyatta, who says his age is about 70, has been confined to the desert village of Lodwar since his release from prison two years ago. Kenya's British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused to grant Kenyatta full liberty and refused to let him return to politics. But eleven African political leaders flew to Lodwar from Nairobi last week to ask Kenyatta a question. Should they cooperate with the British in putting into e" ect Kenya's new constitution (its third since 1954), under which the Africans are assured of a majority in the legislature? Kenyatta's answer...
...first time a black man's vote was as good as a white's. To the white settlers, the imminent prospect of control by the blacks was disturbing enough. Even more alarming was the fact that the chief black candidate sometimes seemed to be Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta himself. Though Kenyatta was still confined to a desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every black rally. Fiery Tom Mboya campaigned in a sports shirt emblazoned with Kenyatta's image. As if things...
Though the British will retain ultimate control of Kenya's colony through the governorship, the Africans will get one-third of all Cabinet posts. But there is still Jomo Kenyatta. Mboya and his party swore to take part in no government until Kenyatta ("our first Chief Minister") is released "unconditionally'' from detention in Lodwar in the Northern Frontier Province wasteland 340 miles away...
Governor Sir Patrick Renison. who only last May had called the jailed Kenyatta a "leader to darkness and to death." was forced to find a compromise. Kenyatta, the Governor decreed, would be moved to a house within 200 miles of Nairobi so that he could be consulted by the African politicians. But he insisted that Kenyatta must remain apart from his nation in detention "until the new government is working well." Whether Mboya. in his new moderation, is satisfied by this remains to be seen...