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...dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and beaded beanie, was burly Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the man who served seven years in jail as the convicted "manager" of the Mau Mau terrorists, and who only three years ago was denounced by the previous governor as "the leader to darkness and death...
Lifted Bible. As if to brush away the bitter past, MacDonald told the crowd that this was a "glad day in Kenya's history" and wished Kenyatta "every success in his task of leading Kenya forward to uhuru [freedom]." Kenyatta echoed the cry of uhuru, then, lifting a Bible high in his right hand, he took the oath of office as Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya...
...Jomo Kenyatta made the giant step from prisoner to Prime Minister with the help of his KANU (Kenya African National Union) Party, which last week won a landslide victory in Kenya's national elections, capturing 66 of 117 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of 41 seats in the Senate. Kenyatta not only defeated Ronald Ngala's rival KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They...
...Congo. Kenyatta has mellowed with age, imprisonment, and repeated marriages (he has had four wives, three of whom survive, as do seven children and four grandchildren). In Nairobi last week he said flatly: "Kenya is not going to be another Congo." As for the future of the 55,000 whites living nervously among Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans, Kenyatta says that the white man "will be protected as any other citizen in Kenya is protected. He will have the right to own property. He will be equal to every other citizen...
Under the compromise constitution worked out last year in London, Britain was to retain control of defense, foreign affairs and internal security. But last week, presumably impressed by Kenyatta's moderate words, Britain's MacDonald disclosed that all three would be transferred to the new government, and complete independence may well be won by the first of the year. A high British official in Nairobi expressed guarded optimism: "It's much more promising than I expected...