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...fact that the chief black candidate sometimes seemed to be Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta himself. Though Kenyatta was still confined to a desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every black rally. Fiery Tom Mboya campaigned in a sports shirt emblazoned with Kenyatta's image. As if things were not tense enough, it was the peak of the dry season, when the air is hot, dusty and stilla time when tempers are short. The army canceled all leave for the troops, and heavily armed...
Close-Up (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Interviews with the Premiers of Nigeria and Togoland, plus Kenya's Tom Mboya, are part of "The Red and the Black," a study of the East-West battle for influence in Africa...
...past year Jordan's King Hussein wrote in eloquent defense of his sometimes wayward brother, Crown Prince Mohammed; Kenya's Tom Mboya wrote to amplify his role in the London Conference on Africa. On the weighty subject of nuclear controls, former AEC Member Thomas E. Murray stated the case for continued testing, and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey argued in rebuttal that the issue was not technological but political...
...committee is planning on several major figures from African countries. There is a possibility, says Leed, that Tom Mboya, the leader of the Kenya African National Party, who is now traveling in the U.S., will be able to participate in 20th Century Week. Oliver Tambo, an African escapee from South Africa and a leading force in the Pan-African movement, and Gaja Wachuku, held of the Nigerian delegation to the U.N., are also being sought...
...Andrew Cohen, the British delegate to the Trusteeship Council, will speak on African problems along with possible speakers Tom Mboya of Kenya and Oliver Tambo, youthful Pan-African leaders...