Word: mboya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya-and to establish some sort of permanent peace between the races-the British have run into two kinds of obstacles. Once it was the Mau Mau terrorists; now it is a new kind of impatient black nationalism led by an aggressive 27-year-old labor leader named Tom Mboya. who wants nothing less than to set up in Kenya the same sort of black republic that Kwame Nkrumah runs in Ghana...
...tribesman who spent a year at Ruskin College, Oxford, Mboya has become increasingly strident in his complaints against British attempts to bring about a gradual "multi-racial'' government in Kenya. Insisting on "parliamentary democracy for the African masses." he lashed out at the Colonial Office's 1957 constitution, which for the first time gave the 6,000,000 Africans the same number of elected seats in the Legislative...
Council as the 57,000 whites. Nor did he like another British plan to divide an extra twelve special seats equally among Africans. Arabs and Europeans. When a group of moderate Africans agreed to run for these special seats. Mboya and six of his henchmen denounced them as "stooges, traitors and quislings." With that, the Crown haled Mboya & Co. into court for conspiracy and criminal libel...
Grudgingly, the government replied with the Lennox-Boyd plan, which would give Negroes six more elective seats and add twelve more councilors, equally divided between Europeans, Negroes and Asians. But this concession did not appease the Africans. Tom Mboya could not block the election, but he did the next best thing. He had six "rejector" candidates enter their names, and each was pledged, if elected, to oppose the constitution. Last week Africans trooped to the polls and elected all six rejectors...
...stalemate. They feel it is impossible to go back to the days of absolute white supremacy, which brought on the Mau Mau terror, and equally impossible to go ahead to granting Kenya complete (and all-black) independence on the model of Ghana. But if Mboya continues to reject the gradual "multiracial" approach to self-government, the result will be increasing racial tension that may end in a renewal of fighting-only this time with all the tribes and not just with the 1,500,000 Kikuyu, who supplied the hard core of Mau Mau rebels...