Kenya: Black & White--Harambee!

Black & White—Harambee!

Only a few years ago, Kenya's whites raged against Jomo Kenyatta as the bloodthirsty founder of Mau Mau. In 1961, a governor of Kenya labeled Kenyatta "a leader to darkness and death." On a London visit in 1962, Kenyatta was pelted with rotten eggs by white extremists brandishing placards reading, "Hang Kenyatta!" Yet last week, as his country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kenyatta was a hero to most of Kenya's remaining white farmers.

At Nakuru, capital of the former white highlands, 400 farmers crowded the town hall to hear him, determined to base their decision to leave Kenya or...

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