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...Kenyatta not only defeated Ronald Ngala's rival KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They are Tom Mboya, 32, the bright, able and ruthless labor leader who leads a moderate faction inside KANU, and Communist-leaning Oginga Odinga, 52, who wears a blue Mao Tse-tung-style workingman's uniform. Kenyatta moved promptly to secure a proper balance in his new administration, handed almost equal Cabinet posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: The Return of Burning Spear | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...used their new knowledge of basic economics to take over rural trading posts from the long-hated Asians. Lately, Kenya's Indian merchants have contributed heavily to both big African political parties in hopes of buying protection after Kenya gets uhuru (freedom). Kenya's Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya is one of the few politicians to pledge that his Kenya African National Union will permit no one to be "victimized on grounds of race, color, tribe or religion." But even Mboya adds blandly, "We of course wish to see Asians and other non-Africans adapt themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: The Asians in Their Midst | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Once Again, the Pistols | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...year by year, TIME has reported the immediate news as it happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political and economic state of 27 countries in the new Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1962 | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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