Four African independence leaders who stayed in bed with former colonial masters

Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta was once described as a Kikuuyu man, made of the Victorian values. What Kenyatta embodied was the idea of the Anglicized African man.

Ultimately, this was his self-perception too. What emerged, therefore, was the centering of the self’s image as the blueprint for whatever course an independent Kenya would take.

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Kenya was African but would also look like Britain, Kenyatta decided. Although he professed a “non-aligned” position during the Cold War, Kenyatta was quite pro-British.

Kenyatta’s liking for the British even led some commentators to conclude that Britain had exchanged a position of power for that of influence.