| Abstract: | The earliest political figures in Kenya and Uganda regarded their brethren in America with a mixture of admiration and respect, thinking them their most likely saviours from colonial oppression. Nothing has so far been published to show that the earliest politicians in East Africa had a wider than local perspective. The author demonstrates that both the Young Baganda Association in Uganda, and the East African Association in Kenya did make concerted efforts to forge alliances with American Negro leaders in the United States. The Young Baganda Association, largely recruted from the sons of Buganda's privileged elite, was regarded in Uganda as a harmless improvement society until they became the most outspoken group against the reduction of Native wages in 1920, and in 1921 took up the Indian cause of further immigration and equal rights in East Africa. The East African Association seems to have been constituted formally in 1921. Its secretary was Harry Thuku, a Kikuyu, who had a political philosophy v/hich increasingly cut across tribal, national, religious and racial barriers. Ref. |
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