Word: patel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spot. The A.P.A. is headed by a pair of grizzled Nairobi medicine men, M'ganga Ngari Kinyugo and Ayurvedic Vaid Bhagwandas Patel, and has attracted 2,000 members from Lake Victoria to Mombasa, charges dues of 280 a month, holds monthly meetings, forms committees and clashes with the government, just like medical associations elsewhere. It also feuds with rival organizations, notably one called African Repairs, whose aim is simply the repair of Africans but whose choice of name is unfortunate. Said one almost-member: "It sounds too much like a society of garage mechanics...