Word: mboya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...
...year by year, TIME has reported the immediate news as it happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political and economic state of 27 countries in the new Africa...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...ailing economy from total collapse, the most hopeful prospect for the future is that a moderate third party will emerge to break the deadlock and agree on a constitution acceptable to big and small tribes alike. Already touted as its leader is KANU's astute, ambitious Secretary Tom Mboya, 31, who has already impressed responsible Africans as offering the most promising alternative to Kenyatta's erratic leadership. Meanwhile, as one African put it: "The melon is split wide open. We can only try to cover it with gauze...
...local tradition, it is Mboya who must pay a dowry for Pamela's hand, and Father Odede decided that 16 cows was about the right price. "It would have been twelve if I had been kind, or 24 if I had been harsh," he declared, adding reflectively, "No woman is worth more than 24 cattle...