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When the trial began in Nairobi, it seemed inevitable that it would provide Mboya with the kind of martyrdom that is so invaluable in nationalist politics. The first day, Bwana Tom (as his idolatrous followers call him) arrived ostentatiously wearing a Ghana toga of kente cloth. Wherever he went, his followers trailed him crying the Ghana chant: "FreeDOM! Free-DOM!" His new People's Convention Party, modeled after Nkrumah's party, organized an effective boycott of buses, beer and tobacco, staged such wild demonstrations that the police had to call on Mboya himself to stop them...
...fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell the riot that never came...
Crowded into Nairobi's Makadara Hall, some 4,000 Negroes cheered lustily as Kenya's Labor Leader Tom Mboya cried: "We reject a government which is based on an imposed constitution. No one will hand us freedom on a silver platter. We must be prepared to use our power-not guns and pangas-to achieve...
Denunciation. Late in the week, as the fighting stepped up in the orange and pomegranate groves outside of the village of Firq, a company of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry arrived in Bahrein from the British base at Nairobi. Firq finally fell after a concentrated attack by Trucial Oman Scouts, covered by machine gunners and mortar barrages from the Cameronians and Hussars...
...representing its 158,000 Indians and one to represent the 31,000 Arabs. One of the terms of this multilayer plan was that there was to be no change in it until 1960. Even before he managed to squeak through to victory in a hotly contested campaign in Nairobi, one African candidate was raising his voice against the new constitution which made his election possible. He is 28-year-old Tom Mboya, a member of the Luo tribe, which is second in numbers to the Kikuyus. "I look at him," says one worried Kenyan, "and I ask myself how would...