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...night, after dinner, he often goes to work alone in a hideaway upstairs office, where he can hear the sounds of the best dance band in Africa, arising from the first-floor exclusive Equator Club, which is open to white hunters, rich settler types, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and Hollywood visitors-but not to Africans. Except on trips, Mboya has little time these days for the nightclubs and dancing he loves (he once shook the maracas in a dance band), or for the many girl friends, not all of them African, whom Tom has always attracted. His current flame...
...better," said the husky white settler from Kenya somewhat plaintively last week, "for us to let the African take the wheel of the bus as long as we can sit by his side and read the map, rather than wait until he throws us out?" For five years ambitious Michael Blundell, 52, head of the moderate New Kenya Group, has been urging his 65,000 fellow whites to accept a multiracial government before the colony's 6,000,000 blacks take over everything themselves. Last week, as the London conference on the future of Kenya was drawing...
...flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans, and I use the term in the commonly accepted sense [i.e., blacks], will be in the majority position, and their voice will be the predominant voice." White settler representatives were shocked as they left the meeting; African Leader Tom Mboya unhappily complained that Macleod's intricate system of reserved parliamentary seats for whites was still far from the one-man, one-vote system he is demanding.'But Macleod had made a major British commitment to the "wind...
...Within a month, he abolished the state of emergency in Kenya-seven years after the Mau Mau terror began. He toured East and Central Africa, talked with tribal chiefs, heads of government, and dozens of others, including his younger brother, Roderick, 39, a white settler in Kenya...
...Macleod proposed an other solution : all delegations and their first special advisers would be admitted to all sessions of the conference. Any "extra" advisers (i.e., Koinange) would be permitted to sit in another office in Lancaster House. The African members promised to study this proposal. Right-wing white settlers blustered that even an outside waiting room was too close contact with Koinange. But the white majorty, under the leadership of Moderate Michael Blundell, were wary of continuing the wrangle lest it build up the personality of Koinange, whom one white settler called: "One of the two evil men I have...