CAPRICORN AFRICA SIR,—I have read in your issue of April
6 ° letter by Mr. Fox Pitt. He states that Africans with whom he has discussed the Society's policy consider that it is designed to preserve European domination. Mr.Ric it Pitt writes from Kensington, and perhaps d may be that at a distance of 6,000 miles ae in the heart of what I understand to be the most civilised part of the largest city in Ibh i world, the Society's policy may appear in suc,; a guise. To Kenya Africans, such as IT PCI I do whose contact with Western civilisation ca
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to our fathers about fifty years after the uild' ing of the Albert Memorial (which Ioder' stand to be the apotheosis ofrWestern al] ttere)' the Society holds out hopes to Kenyans for a multi-racial country which can very sl ortlY take its place in the family of nations. Mr. Fox Pitt assumes that most Africa aim at a pan-African policy and the exell su WA" except as visitors, of immigrants from all other continents. I can assure Mr. Fox Pitt that in Kenya we have no such idea, nor do we tbirilc it likely that a world torn by the memorY °I two great conflicts in the past forty year c view with equanimity the eruption of dozen of uneconomic Black Republics all °var. Africa. I and many of my friends believe
a. (o Kenya, governed multi-racially by the best
s • men drawn from all races, will progrCs wards complete autonomy very much ell, icker ants than the Gold Coast or Uganda, whose A during their progress towards political an
social maturity are bound to cause s
misgIvinS' to the great powers on whom the world clic for the preservation of peace. But Africans in Kenya are by no means satisfied with their present status in their own country' They dislike intensely the idea that theY SPECTATOR, MAY 11, 1956 should be required to qualify for citizenship in the land of their birth, whilst immigrants can claim full citizenship within four years of their arrival.
These and many other genuine grievances will be handled dynamically by Kenya's vigorous indigenous population and many of 'Is believe that in the Capricorn Africa policy lies the best and most rapid and peaceful answer to these grievances.—Yours faithfully. NORBERT OKARE el o Boa: 132, Nairobi, East Africa
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