KENYA BLACK & WHITE HARAMBEE ! ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, KENYA'S 
WHITES RAGED AGAINST JOMO KENYATTA AS THE BLOODTHIRSTY FOUNDER OF MAU 
MAU . IN 1961, A GOVERNOR OF KENYA LABELED KENYATTA " 
A LEADER TO DARKNESS AND DEATH . " ON A LONDON 
VISIT IN 1962, KENYATTA WAS PELTED WITH ROTTEN EGGS BY WHITE 
EXTREMISTS BRANDISHING PLACARDS READING, " HANG KENYATTA ! " YET LAST 
WEEK, AS HIS COUNTRY'S NEWLY ELECTED PRIME MINISTER, KENYATTA WAS A 
HERO TO MOST OF KENYA'S REMAINING WHITE FARMERS . AT NAKURU, 
CAPITAL OF THE FORMER WHITE HIGHLANDS, 400 FARMERS CROWDED THE TOWN 
HALL TO HEAR HIM, DETERMINED TO BASE THEIR DECISION TO LEAVE 
KENYA OR TO STAY ON WHAT HE HAD TO TELL THEM 
(IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, 6,000 HAVE LEFT, BUT 60,000 REMAIN) 
. KENYATTA APPEALED TO THE WHITES TO FORGIVE AND FORGET, TO 
JOIN HANDS WITH HIS THREE-MONTH-OLD AFRICAN GOVERNMENT AND PROVE THAT DIFFERENT 
RACIAL GROUPS CAN LIVE HARMONIOUSLY TOGETHER . " THERE IS NO 
SOCIETY OF ANGELS, BLACK, BROWN OR WHITE, " SAID KENYATTA . 
" WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND AS SUCH WE ARE BOUND 
TO MAKE MISTAKES . IF I HAVE DONE A MISTAKE TO 
YOU, IT IS FOR YOU TO FORGIVE ME . IF YOU 
HAVE DONE A MISTAKE TO ME, IT IS FOR ME TO 
FORGIVE YOU . " HE ASSURED THE WHITE SETTLERS THAT THEY 
WOULD BE ALLOWED TO FARM THEIR LAND WITHOUT INTERFERENCE, THOUGH THE 
GOVERNMENT WILL USE IDLE LAND, AND PROMISED MORE POLICE ACTION TO 
PREVENT THE STEALING OF CATTLE . WHEN HE FINISHED, THE WHITE 
FARMERS ROARED KENYATTA'S BATTLE CRY OF " HARAMBEE ! " , 
A SWAHILI EXPRESSION MEANING " LET'S ALL PUSH TOGETHER GET UP 
AND GO . " NOT ALL WERE WON OVER . BUT 
MOST DECIDED TO STAY IN KENYA SO LONG AS JOMO KENYATTA 
CONTINUED SAYING AND DOING THE RIGHT THINGS . HIS SPEECH, SAID 
FARMER LEADER LORD DELAMERE, WAS A " UNIQUE AND HISTORIC " 
EVENT . 