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...annual income of $739 before they qualify to vote-this in a country where the average African income is $319 a year. Did Smith have a trick up his sleeve? He indicated that to prove his point he might try to capitalize on the traditional nonpolitical prestige of tribal chiefs, who represent thousands of Africans and yet are loyal to any colonial government. "I don't wish to mislead the British government," he said. "I must not pull a fast one." Fast or slow, the two Prime Ministers had won themselves a bit of a breather...
...hardly any of them are really democratic. Forced to live as nations although their loyalties and organizations are tribal, torn by all the monstrous problems of backwardness and ignorance, Africa's new countries have found democracy far too difficult to live with. So far, at least 18 of them have effectively eliminated the opposition and inaugurated one-party rule. Few of the rest seem at all convinced that Western democracy has meaning in Africa. Last week, after eight months of independence, Kenya also set its course for the one-party...
...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...
Clamor v. Cry. As far as Kenyatta is concerned, his own KANU supplies about all the opposition he needs, balanced as it is between his own Kikuyus and the Luo tribe of his powerful, Communist-backed Home Minister Oginga Odinga. In a tribal society, Kenyatta argues, the two-party system is unnatural. "We don't subscribe to the notion of the government and the governed in opposition to one another, one clamoring for duties and the other crying for rights." Will one-party government mean repression? For all his terrorist past, Prime Minister Kenyatta, 73, has so far gone...
...weeks ago, Savoy and Santander reached the Plain of the Spirits by mule team and made contact with some local Indians. At first, the Indians refused to guide them. Tribal legend said that anyone who escorted strangers into the plain would soon die. But after some powerful persuasion, the Indians agreed to join the expedition. They led Savoy and Santander on a three-day march through the jungle to the first moss-covered ruins of what may be Vilcabamba. "We couldn't believe our eyes," says Savoy. "Each day, it became more fantastic...