Title: Tom Mboya: a photographic tribute
Photographer(s):Mohamed Amin
Writer(s): Lennard Okola
Designer(s): Pictorial Historians of Africa Ltd
Publisher(s): East Africa Publishing House, Nairobi, Kenya
Year: 1969
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Language(s): English
Pages: 96
Size: 21 x 28,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Print: Printing and Packaging Corporation, Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Kenya,1930-1969
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Kenyan politician (b. in Central Prov. 1930 - d. assassinated in Nairobi 1969), from a family of Luo descent. An exponent of the Kenya African union of Y. Ke nyatta, he worked (from 1953) to give political tone to Kenya's African unions during the years when African leaders were imprisoned and all political organizing by them was prohibited. Elected in 1957, in Nairobi, a deputy to the Legislative Council, he succeeded in uniting the eight African deputies into a group sympathetic in demanding the formation of a unitary African state of Kenya. In Dec. 1958 M. was elected president of the Pan-African Conference in Accra. In 1960, nationwide political formations having been authorized, M. was among the promoters of the Kenya African national union, based mainly among the Kikuyu and Luo. Secretary general of the union, he led it to success in the Feb. 1961 elections. He was minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in 1963 and of Planning and Economic Development from Dec. 1964.
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