Posted @withrepost • @the.kraal Today we honor Tom Mboya (1930-1969), one of Africa’s greatest leader. 🇰🇪🌍 A member of the Luo people and a graduate of mission schools, Mboya first worked as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi and almost immediately became involved in the nascent Kenyan trade-union movement. He was a key nationalist figure in the days of the Mau Mau movement, led by the Kikuyu people against European ownership of land. From 1953 to 1963 he was general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labour (KFL), an especially important post since no strictly political African national organizations were allowed in Kenya until 1960. Unlike most of his colleagues, he opposed the policy of multiracial political representation put forward by the British colonial government in the late 1950s. He helped form the Kenya independence movement in the council and the People’s Convention Party in Nairobi. In the critical pre-independence decade he also spent a year at the University of Oxford and twice visited the United States. In 1959 he helped found the African-American Students Foundation to raise money to send East African (originally only Kenyan) university students to the United States on charter flights, thus making it possible for many more students to study abroad (Barack Obama’s father was one of them). When Kenya attained self-government rule on June 1st, 1963, Tom Mboya became the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, a position he was able to utilize in shaping a future independent Kenya. In December 1964, Kenya became a Republic, with Mboya being appointed the Minister of Economic Planning and Development. He was later instrumental in putting together the famous Sessional Paper No.10: "African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya ", which continued to be the 'guiding philosophy of the Kenyan government decades his death. He was killed in 1969. Rest in Power ✊🏿 . Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Mboya . . #TheKraalHISTORY #BlackHistory #DedanKimathi #Kenya #MauMau #Africa #Panafricanism #Melanin #Kenya #KenyanHistory #TomMboya #AfricanLeaders #AntiColonialism #AntiImperialism https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLKs7YDtS-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lr0ww12r0m76
