Word: mboya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mboya, Kenya's young leader, who is attractive to the British Colonial Office because he lacks the Mau Mau taint, who heads Kenya's largest political party, but who apparently wants power now only to hand it over to Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British hate and fear...
...words, coming from a man who aspires to the leadership of Africa, sounded somewhat hollow-and with good reason. The 100-odd delegates from 31 African countries were largely second-string (the exception: Kenya's Tom Mboya, who goes everywhere). And the "brothers in arms" were soon at one another's throats. Somali delegates tried to denounce Ethiopian border attacks, and had to be ejected...
Unmoved by all this, Kenya's biggest African party, the K.A.N.U., led by James Gichuru and Tom Mboya, vowed to sabotage the new constitution until Kenyatta gets his freedom. Both Gichuru and Mboya now refer to Kenyatta as "our national leader," openly profess their intention of installing him as Kenya's first African prime minister. In part, this deference to Jomo is dictated by fear of the almost godlike status which 30 years of nationalist struggle has won Kenyatta among Kenya's black masses...
...African faction will dare oppose Kenyatta's wishes for long. The Africans who visited him last week insist that, contrary to earlier reports, Jomo is neither ill, feeble nor alcoholic. Recently, he produced a child by his young third wife, who shares his Lodwar cabin. Said Tom Mboya: "I can assure people who consider that his age has impaired him mentally and physically that they are quite wrong. For the Europeans, this is the end to their wishful thinking...
...find a compromise. Kenyatta, the Governor decreed, would be moved to a house within 200 miles of Nairobi so that he could be consulted by the African politicians. But he insisted that Kenyatta must remain apart from his nation in detention "until the new government is working well." Whether Mboya. in his new moderation, is satisfied by this remains to be seen...