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With words to match the splendor of his navy blue uniform trimmed with gold braid and epaulets, the Governor of Kenya rose in Nairobi's Legislative Council to deliver his maiden address. "There is a new government in England with a new Colonial Secretary, and a new Governor of Kenya," said Sir Patrick Renison. "In a glowing spirit of challenge and adventure, let us put the darkness behind us and look bravely to the future...
...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...
...questions become more acute the farther south in Africa the visitor travels. In Kenya, barely five years after the Mau Mau terrors, whites now dine with blacks in some of Nairobi's more fashionable hotels and restaurants. In Southern Rhodesia the whites are called "masters"; a government official summons a black clerk and says, "Solomon, show this master where Room 207 is." In Johannesburg there are two separate bus systems, one for the whites and one for the nie blankes. But a black carrying a heavy sack of parcels at the behest of a white mailman automatically becomes white...
...surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose fellow tribesmen may contribute to hospital bills by bartering produce or working in the hospital gardens...
...revolution-wary Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa, shivers run down the spines of white men when blacks get together to plan the continent's fate. For possessing what the Kenya government calls "seditious" literature, one of Mboya's chief aides in Nairobi, Elijah Omolo Agar, was recently jailed. Mboya himself says: "They have searched my home many times, but I do not keep embarrassing things there." That does not keep the Kenya authorities from trying: from his suitcase at the airport, police seized several papers, took them of for further study...