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Less than two weeks after winning its independence, Kenya became embroiled in bloody conflict with Somalia, its northeastern neighbor. Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta declared a state of emergency in the border region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya...
...departing British are greatly impressed by Kenyatta's growing statesmanship...
...Only we can save ourselves," he told his people last week. "Nobody else can save us. In the past we have blamed the Englishman when anything went wrong. We said he was sucking our blood. Now the government is ours, and now you will blame Kenyatta. But you should know that Kenyatta, by himself, cannot give you anything. I urge you to work hard so that our Uhuru will be meaningful. From today on, our motto will be 'Uhuru na Kazl [Freedom and Work...
...Independence brought about a reunion of Kenyatta's far-flung families. His English third wife, Edna May, and her 20-year-old son Peter, a Cambridge undergraduate, flew to Nairobi and were met by Kenyatta's fourth wife, Ngina, an African, and his daughters Margaret, 34, and Jane, 14, by his first wife Grace, also an African. His second wife, whose name Kenyatta refuses to divulge, is said to have died about twelve years...
Like Kenya's Kenyatta-and unlike some other African leaders-Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Shamte Hamadi does not equate uhuru with Utopia. "We appreciate that freedom does not mean a distribution of loot," he said at last week's independence ceremonies. "There is no loot to distribute...