Word: kenyattas
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...recent scholarship graduate of Western College in Oxford, Ohio. Along with the willowy, ebony-skinned bride of 23, the young trade-union boss will acquire added political prestige, for Pamela is the daughter of Walter Odede, for years a prominent African nationalist and close associate of | the revered Jomo Kenyatta...
...While Kenyatta was in prison, the 1952-57 Mau Mau uprising was beaten down, but the political tension on which it was built never subsided. The wave of African nationalism would not recede, and the unrelenting pressure for freedom by the colony's 5,500,000 blacks began to tell. Kenya's economy faltered: $2,800,000 in white-settler capital left Kenya weekly, and 800 of the colony's 3,600 white-settler farms went up for sale. In 1960 Sir Patrick Renison still denounced Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death...
...Privileges. Belatedly, the whites conceded that Mau Mau had only begun in earnest after Kenyatta's jailing, not before. By early this year, Sir Patrick was saying, "It is arguable that the economy is likely to be more damaged by the uncertainty of [Kenyatta's] continued restriction.'' Finally, as the British realized that there could be no stable government in Kenya without black leadership, and that there could be no black leadership without Jomo Kenyatta, his release became inevitable. To reassure panicky whites, Kenyatta now says that they may keep their farms even after independence...
...time being Kenyatta remains restricted to his three-acre plot at Gatundu. disqualified from holding political office because of his conviction. But he promises that as soon as he is free to move he will stump the colony. ("My message will be one of unity.") The British hint that they will be watching closely before deciding whether or not to restore Kenyatta's eligibility to hold political office. But since they have promised Kenya independence-possibly by next summer-their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time...
...sleek Mercedes, victorious Dr. Banda drove through cheering crowds to the $28,000 house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers...