biography
| name: |
Mboya, Tom
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popular name of Thomas Joseph Mboya
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pronunciation:
[mboya]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930–69)
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| biography:
| Kenyan statesman and nationalist leader, born in Kilima Mbogo, WC Kenya. He studied at Mangu, joined the Kenya African Union, and after this Party was suppressed became secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labour and a campaigner for independence. In 1960 he was general secretary of Kenyatta's Kenya African National Union, and became minister of labour (1962–3), minister of justice (1963–4), and minister of economic development and planning (1964–9). He was assassinated in Nairobi in 1969. |
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