I knew of Philip Ochieng when I was a young man in high school in the 1970s. Journalist Philip Ochieng, who died on Tuesday, aged 83, took exception to the vice president’s broadside. Chairman Mao Tse Tung of the Chinese Communist Party had come in for special beating by the vice president. Ochieng believed that Moi belonged to the class that should not discuss Mao, leave alone ideas. Julius Nyerere’s Dar es Salaam was the hub of African liberation and the nursery of African experimentation with free thinking.

Source: Standard Digital April 29, 2021 21:00 UTC