Word: mboya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that there was to be no change in it until 1960. Even before he managed to squeak through to victory in a hotly contested campaign in Nairobi, one African candidate was raising his voice against the new constitution which made his election possible. He is 28-year-old Tom Mboya, a member of the Luo tribe, which is second in numbers to the Kikuyus. "I look at him," says one worried Kenyan, "and I ask myself how would I like to face him 20 years from now, when he has 20 more years of legislative experience behind...
Bilingual Spellbinder. No simple tribesman, Mboya bounces around the countryside in a Volkswagen. His library is studded with the works of Mark Twain, Tom Paine and Plato, and his politics have the pinkish hue of the Nye Bevan Laborites who have taken him up in Britain. He is articulate in English and a spellbinder in Swahili. Last year he toured the U.S. and returned home with $35,000 from the C.I.O.-A.F.L. to build a headquarters for his Kenya Labor Federation...
...labor organizer from Kenya, Tom Mboya, also told the conference that "so long as our country is under English rule the possibility of our developing our own country for our citizens is very remote...
Commenting on the Mau Mau incidents in Kenya, Mboya said, "By the use of military power, we have suppressed the militant wing of revolt, but we have done nothing to eliminate the conditions of the present crisis...
Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the conference will discuss the "African Revolution and American Responses." It features Jean Fairfax, recent college secretary of AFSC in New England, Tom Mboya, general secretary of Kenya Federation of Labor Willaim Worthy, CBS news commentator and Nieman Fellow...