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From Devil to Father Figure: the transformation of Jomo Kenyatta by Kenya whites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Peter Knauss
Peter Knauss
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
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‘Europeans are living in a fool's paradise. To base one's entire security on one old man is folly. Hero worship is an advanced form of pathology’. This is the view of a white farmer who lives in the Trans Nzoia District in the northwestern corner of the former ‘White Highlands’ and who has made Kenya his home since: 945. His opinions are not typical of the several score Europeans whom I interviewed in: 968, but they are incisive and essentially accurate.

Type
Africana
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , May 1971 , pp. 131 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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