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...Mboya's "racist extremism" shocks even some of his fellow Africans-so much so that in July a group of African elected members in the colonial Legislative Council dealt a painful blow to Mboya's prestige by breaking away from his leadership to form their own multiracial National Party, devoted to slowly increasing African representation, which would assure democratic self-government by 1968 for Kenya. To regain his political luster, Mboya promptly announced a new party of his own-the all-African Kenya Independence Movement. But last week fate dealt Tom another setback: the Kenya government nipped K.I.M...
Protesting loudly, Mboya demanded that other parties be similarly restricted. But Kenya's white rulers pointed to a 1956 emergency decree prohibiting formation of any all-African group that was not confined to a single district or administrative area. Talking darkly of plans to push ahead with his new party in legally disguised forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem...
...instigator was Kenya's canny Politician Tom Mboya, 28, currently embroiled in a hot fight to expand his native party (see FOREIGN NEWS). When Mboya swept through the U.S. on a speaking tour last spring, he roused support for a stirring project: giving able young Kenyans a crack at higher education. The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi grants only subuniversity diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, an affiliate of the University of London, or somehow find their way overseas...
...Mboya's aid came prominent U.S. Negroes-notably ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, Balladeer Harry Belafonte, Actor Sidney Poitier. In flowed the scholarships. The Americans chipped in plane fare; Africans chipped in pocket money. Carefully screened by Mboya, the 81 students enplaned for New York...
Times. His version: 451 native Kenyans are pursuing higher education this year on government scholarships-79 at the Royal Technical College. 325 at Makerere College, 45 in Britain, two in Canada. Countered Tom Mboya: the statistics, in a land with an African population of 6,000,000, "are an indictment of British attitudes toward African education...