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Making a Nation in Kenya

M ANY YEARS AGO the leaders of political thought in Kenya, indeed almost the only producers of any constructive political thought at all, were the European settlers led by Lord Delamere. Their political objectives were simple and in terms of those days realistic. Nothing less than the creation of a self-governing white Dominion within the Commonwealth. Indeed I remember early in 1955 being bitterly attacked by an older colleague of mine in the Legislative Council for the concept of multi-racialism for which I was fighting on the grounds that I had destroyed everything for which he had worked t…