Thomas Mboya
Thomas Mboya (1930-1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist and political leader.[1]
Mboya, a former activist of the Kenyan African Union, was General Secretary of the Kenyan Federation of Labour during the Mau Mau uprising. In order to get him out of the country, the colonial government paid for him to study in England, and a scholarship from the ICFTU was also arranged.[2] According to Ted Morgan, the scholarship at Ruskin College was facilitated by Walter Hood of the TUC's Colonial Department.[3]
Stephen Dorril cites Anthony Verrier as describing Mboya's 'virtual recruitment' by MI6.[4]
In 1956, Mboya visited New York where he stayed with Maida Springer. During the trip he obtained $35,000 from George Meany for a Labour Center, and 81 scholareships from Jay Lovestone.[5]
Mboya made a second visit to the US in 1959.[6]
Mboya accused the Colonial Office of supporting the foundation of the New Kenya Group.[7]
At a meeting of the CIA-funded International Student Conference in 1961, Mboya persuaded Jonas Savimbi to join the Union of the Peoples of Angola (UPA).[8]
In 1962, the former Governor of Kenya, Evelyn Baring, wrote that Mboya was the man to back 'since the real danger was those who would look east'.[9] Baring proposed an alliance between Mboya, KADU and KANU moderates to be facilitated by withdrawal of Mboya's American funding.[10]
Griffith-Jones subsequently wanted Mboya to challenge Jomo Kenyatta, a move Mboya resisted in the belief that Kenyatta was needed to isolate Oginga Odinga.[11]
Mboya worked closely with the Ariel Foundation, backing a socio-economic report on Kenya by Arthur Gaitskell that provided the basis for KANU's 1963 election manifesto, and supporting its scholarships for Zimbabwean nationalists.[12]
Mboya became minister of labour in the new government, which passed restrictive labour laws.[13]
Mboya was assassinated in 1969. At the time, he had been seen as Kenyatta's most likely successor.[14]
External resources
- NameBase MBOYA TOM
Books
D. Goldworthy, Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget, East African Publishers, 1982.
Notes
- ↑ Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930-1969), King Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, accessed 4 October 2013.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.144.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.307.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.721.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.305.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.307.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.146.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.190.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.149.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.152.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.308.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.155.
