Three months ago the first measure of democracy was doled out to the native African tribesmen of Britain's Kenya, but from the Africans' point of view it was a pitiful inch for a desired mile. Under a constitution devised during the height of the Mau Mau rebellion, some 130,000 carefully screened voters representing Kenya's more than 5,500,000 Africans were allowed to vote for eight black members of the national Legislative Council.
Against these eight were ranged 14 members representing the British colony's handful of 42,000 whites, six representing its 158,000 Indians and...
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