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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Already Mboya was developing a tactic successful for him and infuriating for his opposition: haggling, reaching agreement, then rejecting what had been agreed upon as not enough. Soon he was in London demanding more: one man, one vote, on a common roll. Fearing violence, the Colonial Office agreed to bring African membership up to parity with elected...
...entire African elected membership sat down at London's Lancaster House for a round-table conference with British and Kenya government officials and delegates of white and Asian settlers. Last week they arose with the outline of a totally new Kenya. Its main terms: ¶ A common voting roll and an expanded franchise that would raise the number of eligible African voters to perhaps a million in new elections next spring. ¶ A 65-member legislature in which Africans seem certain of 37 seats, a clear majority...
...settler to preserve the sanctity of the "white highlands." But last year, alarmed by the spreading gap between African and European (white) attitudes, he dramatically resigned as Minister of Agriculture and formed the New Kenya Group, a party resolved to break the white highlands monopoly, create a common electoral roll for all races, but preserve a special place for Kenya's 66,000 whites. "We must stop this racialism and build a Kenya nation," he cried, his voice choked with emotion, but the angry farmers of his district shouted, "You are selling us out!" Six weeks ago, Blundell could...
Julius Nyerere, 38, a small, mustached onetime schoolteacher who was one of 26 children, will soon be in charge of Britain's Tanganyika trust territory (German before World War I), an East African land as large as France and Germany combined. By common consent, he is the ablest of the rising new crop of African leaders...
...authorities agreed to a multiracial government. "Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way," he preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule. Our unity is our weapon." Relieved to find a leader with such common sense, the British in December agreed to "responsible" government with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period, after which the Africans will almost certainly take over entirely. "Now," says Nyerere, slated to be the first Prime Minister, "our task really begins. We have changed...