Tom Mboya [centre] and Jomo Kenyatta [right] meeting the Governor in January 1963 [Courtesy]It is 52 years today since Tom Mboya’s life was cut short by an assassin’s bullets on July 5, 1969 a few metres from the statue of a leader many Kenyans living today never got to know. Still miffed by his lofty achievements in just 39 years of life, pundits wonder how he managed to pull off so much so fast. We take a fleeting glance at the man whose bones repose under a bullet-shaped mausoleum on Rusinga Island, Homa Bay County. At only 28, Mboya was elected to chair the first All African Peoples Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana in 1958. Curiously, noted Obadha, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) carried news of Mboya’s death before the Voice of Kenya (VoK), now KBC, did.

Source: Standard Digital July 05, 2021 04:52 UTC