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Kennedy Entertains Mboya at Hyannisport: But will he mix with...
...United States is just starting, but they will give us the help we need," said Harvard-bound Christian Ohiri, 22. Ohiri's faith is not shared by Kenya's flashy young politician Tom Mboya, who says that the U.S. is "not applying itself realistically" to the problem of educating Africans. Visiting the U.S. to raise plane fare for 250 Kenyans who have scholarships to American colleges next fall, Mboya called on Candidate John F. Kennedy at Hyannisport and said: "What we need is a crash program to train thousands to man our new government...
...Government spends less on education in Africa ($2,000,000 a year) than it does in any other area. Only now is the U.S. devising plans for scholarships for 150 Guinea students and 300 from the Congo. Mboya argues that such private-scholarship programs as the Nigerian plan are "too little and too selective...
...Mboya's activities embroil him with British colonial officers in Kenya, who say that Mboya, by the selection methods he uses, often sends "inferior" students to the U.S., where they often can get into only "inferior" colleges (e.g., small Southern Negro institutions). They are embittered after they get home, say the British, when they cannot meet the higher-education job specifications the British insist upon, based on British models. The British also argue that they themselves are training Africans to run new nations...
...Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...