Word: mboya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his meteoric rise in Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
Secretary Coombs thinks that there is room for both Henry's and Mboya's methods. Coordinating the two approaches through the Institute of International Education, he has put another $100,000 into a better screening and scholarship system in East Africa. But foreign-student aid is not fully organized and there is obvious need for a really extensive foreign-students admission system with State Department help all over the world. This is one of Coombs's top priorities should...
Help to Rebels. A.F.L.-C.I.O. pours considerable sums of its own into Africa, last year put up $54,000 toward a new Nairobi headquarters building (Solidarity House) for Mboya's Kenya Federation of Labor, subsidized Harvard scholarships for several African students, recently allocated another $330,000 to help African labor unions. Sparking this African program is the controversial Irving Brown, 49, bustling, bespectacled A.F.L.-C.I.O. international representative, who is based in Paris but spends most of his time dashing between such places as Tunis, Lagos. Salisbury, and Dakar. It was Brown, and other trade unionists like him, who offered...
...rigging the voting at Casablanca, Nkrumah's allies won their way last week, ramming through a resolution requiring all members of the new A.A.T.U.F. to drop their foreign affiliations within ten months. But Kenya's Tom Mboya, as well as other loyal I.C.F.T.U.-affiliated union leaders from Tunisia, Nigeria. Liberia and other countries, felt certain they could get the rules changed before the ten-month deadline was up. "We have lost the battle, but not the war," said Mboya grimly as he departed for home...
...country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya's Tom Mboya visited the U.S. in 1959 ("A busy year for touring cutthroats"), the paper dismissed him as "a man only lately come down out of a tree...