Kenya's future

KENYA: the tensions of progress, by Susan Wood (Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 6s.).
IN this the latest in the excellent series on current racial questions sponsored by the Institute of Race Relations, Mrs. Wood provides a much-needed summary of the background to the political situation in Kenya today.
Her impartial and lucid account is carried as far as the Lancaster House conference earlier this year, and provides a basis for readers to form their own judgements on the developments that have taken place since: the appointment of four African Ministers, the formation of KANTJ and Mr. Muliro's counter-stroke of creating KADU (with the danger of African politics developing into a struggle on tribal lines between Kikuyu and Luo in KANU against the rest-including such politically unsophisticated tribes as the Masai ad the Somalis -in KADU), and now the events in the Congo and the repercussions these are having on European fears (South African sources claim that 1,000 Europeans-roughly two per cent. of the white population-are interested in migrating to the Union).
It is noteworthy that Mrs. Wood should include a chapter on developments in the adjacent territories of Uganda and Tanganyika. Most of this is taken up with Tanganyika, where European political leaders like Bryceson are solidly behind Nyerere, the leader of TANU. Whether European politicians in Kenya like Blundell can learn from this the need to play second fiddle to their responsible African colleagues remains to be seen.