USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Celebrating Kenya's "Double" Independence Day, with President Kenyatta's ICC "Acquittal"

brother Ishmael, you  have hit on an important issue. However, in my post-1966 interview with Ghana's late president Kwame Nkrumah (in Guinea, where he was in exile), I queried him about the former Kenyan VP Oginga Odinga's book, "Not Yet Uhuru", because he wrote the foreword to that book. I also queried him (in my then bold journalistic days as an Editor in Liberia) because President Kenyatta was supposed to be his best friend, with whom he served as Co-Secretaries of the 1945 Pan-African Conference in Manchester, UK.

 

Do you know Nkrumah's response: he said he felt the need to write the foreword to "Not Yet Uhuru" because Mr. Odinga was correct:: there was NO Uhuru anywhere in Africa, not even in his own Ghana, which led the way in 1957 with independence from Great Britain.  "Ghana, since February 24, 1966 is under a neo-colonialist control, with a military coup," he said almost in tears!

 

So, I totally agree with you, my dear Brother, that it is not only in Kenya, but almost everywhere in Africa, there is YET to be a true Uhuru!

Brother A.B.

 

 

  

  

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From: Ishmael Irungu Munene [Ishmael.Munene@nau.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 8:13 PM
To: Assensoh, Akwasi B.; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
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Subject: RE: Celebrating Kenya's "Double" Independence Day, with President Kenyatta's ICC "Acquittal"

Indeed Brother Assensoh--I like the "double" here. It is still "Not Yet Uhuru" as was the title in Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's book. Kenya is still not free (uhuru) if the poverty and insecurity is anything to go by and President Uhuru is not out of the woods yet as Bensouda has indicated and his Deputy Ruto is still in the dock.

Ishmael I. Munene

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From: Assensoh, Akwasi B. [aassenso@indiana.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 5:13 AM
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Subject: FW: Celebrating Kenya's "Double" Independence Day, with President Kenyatta's ICC "Acquittal"