Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Then, as now

Our country today is in a bad state for its land is full of fools---and fools in a country delay the independence of its people.

Kenyatta, speech at the Kenya African Union Meeting in Nyeri, July 26, 1952 (Transcript from the Corfield report*, presumably via the secret policemen who attended the meeting).

*Corfield, Frank D. (1960). The Origins and Growth of Mau Mau: an Historical Survey (Sessional Paper no. 5) Nairobi: Government of Kenya. ISBN 9780521130905.