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...ailing economy from total collapse, the most hopeful prospect for the future is that a moderate third party will emerge to break the deadlock and agree on a constitution acceptable to big and small tribes alike. Already touted as its leader is KANU's astute, ambitious Secretary Tom Mboya, 31, who has already impressed responsible Africans as offering the most promising alternative to Kenyatta's erratic leadership. Meanwhile, as one African put it: "The melon is split wide open. We can only try to cover it with gauze...
During his meteoric rise in Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
...local tradition, it is Mboya who must pay a dowry for Pamela's hand, and Father Odede decided that 16 cows was about the right price. "It would have been twelve if I had been kind, or 24 if I had been harsh," he declared, adding reflectively, "No woman is worth more than 24 cattle...
Secretary Coombs thinks that there is room for both Henry's and Mboya's methods. Coordinating the two approaches through the Institute of International Education, he has put another $100,000 into a better screening and scholarship system in East Africa. But foreign-student aid is not fully organized and there is obvious need for a really extensive foreign-students admission system with State Department help all over the world. This is one of Coombs's top priorities should...
...rigging the voting at Casablanca, Nkrumah's allies won their way last week, ramming through a resolution requiring all members of the new A.A.T.U.F. to drop their foreign affiliations within ten months. But Kenya's Tom Mboya, as well as other loyal I.C.F.T.U.-affiliated union leaders from Tunisia, Nigeria. Liberia and other countries, felt certain they could get the rules changed before the ten-month deadline was up. "We have lost the battle, but not the war," said Mboya grimly as he departed for home...