Word: kenyattas
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...Uhuru!" (Freedom) bellowed the burly, bearded African in red shirt and beaded cap. "Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party...
L.F.A. already has an estimated 2,000 members; police recently have been arresting 200 suspects a week, fearing that the whole project to give Kenya self-government will be jeopardized if mass murders begin again. Britain's Governor Sir Patrick Renison urges Kenyatta to speak out against the Freedom Army but Burning Spear shrugs the problem away, suggests that the British are merely building up a pretext to delay independence...
Political parties: 7. Voters: 80%. From long constitutional wrangling, urban population is steeped in theory of self-government, but country is still split between Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya African National Union (KANU), representing two biggest tribes, and Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), supported by pastoral tribes...
...Kenya's six most powerful tribes-notably the powerful Kikuyu-KADU seeks support from the Masai, Baluhya and other tribes that are numerically smaller but occupy far more land than KANU'S tribes. Fearful of a massive land grab by KANU supporters, many of whom devoutly believe Kenyatta's pledge that there will be land or jobs for all, Ronald Ngala demanded-and got-a measure of decentralization giving local control over African land rights, police, education and health...
...However, Kenyatta's KANU seems certain of working control in Kenya's two-house federal parliament, enough control in fact to rewrite the London-made constitution its own way once the white chiefs leave and the Africans get full power...