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Jovial Host. After playing host to all members of Parliament at his home in Nairobi, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta jovially announced that he will ask Parliament for constitutional amendments that will make Kenya a one-party republic. If Parliament refused, he added, he would call a national referendum in November. Since his Kenya African National Union party (KANU) represents the nation's two largest tribal groups, there is little chance he would lose the referendum...
Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...
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Appointment in Nairobi. His 1,200-man army was gone-dissolved by burly President Abeid Karume, who had tired of Okello's manic ravings. No sooner had the field marshal arrived than Karume sent him winging back to the mainland. There, Okello called a press conference on the veranda of Tanganyika's Dares Salaam Club, sadly explained that he had been kicked out of Zanzibar because some people, "four or five" at least, felt he carried the seeds of death. "Wherever I go there will be bloodshed," he mourned. But the old elan returned when he was asked...
...what of the future? "I will be dead in nine months," he wept. "God has told me. Someone, a Somali I think, will shoot me in Nairobi. However hard I try to get away, death will be there." It wasn't. After keeping his appointment in Nairobi (where he claimed he had less than two shillings to his name), Okello found himself persona non grata. So he bought himself a dark blue Peugeot, packed his pistol and candy-striped cane, and set off for Uganda...