KENYA UHURU IS NOT ENOUGH THE YOUTH RALLY AT NAIROBI LAST WEEK 
WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF FOUR RANGY AFRICANS . 
EACH WAS CLAD IN ANIMAL SKINS, ARMED WITH SHARP-BLADED PANGAS AND 
WEARING HIS HAIR IN LONG BRAIDS SMEARED WITH RED MUD THE 
FIGHTING INSIGNIA OF THE MAU MAU TERRORISTS . THE CROWD FELL 
SILENT AS THE FOUR APPROACHED THE DAIS WHERE SAT PRIME MINISTER 
JOMO KENYATTA AND HIS HONORED GUEST, PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF BRITAIN'S 
QUEEN ELIZABETH . WITH HIS LUMBERING, ELEPHANT WALK, KENYATTA DESCENDED FROM 
THE DAIS, PUSHED THROUGH HIS STARTLED SECURITY GUARDS, AND GREETED THE 
MAU MAU . / KENYA IS FREE NOW, " HE SAID 
. " THERE IS NO NEED TO HIDE OR FIGHT . 
/ PEACEFULLY, THE FOUR MEN SURRENDERED THEIR WEAPONS . THE CEREMONY 
. ALTHOUGH KENYA'S VICIOUS MAU MAU LONG AGO STOPPED FIGHTING, MANY 
WERE STILL HIDING OUT IN THE GREEN-BLACK FORESTS ON THE SLOPES 
OF MOUNT KENYA . ALL WEEK THEY DRIFTED BACK " FIELD 
MARSHAL " MWARIAMA AND 50 ASSORTED " GENERALS . " THE 
FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVING ALONG WITH THE MAU MAU RANGED FROM RED 
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER CHEN YI TO INDIA'S INDIRA GANDHI AND U.S 
. INTERIOR SECRETARY STEWART UDALL . ALSO FROM THE U.S., AS 
GUESTS AND ENTERTAINERS, CAME HARRY BELAFONTE AND MIRIAM MAKEBA. THERE WERE 
BALLS, GARDEN PARTIES, RECEPTIONS, THE LAYING OF CORNERSTONES, AND THE PRESENTATION 
OF GIFTS . QUEEN ELIZABETH GAVE KENYATTA THE ROYAL LODGE AT 
SAGANA ; THE AGA KHAN TURNED OVER TO HIM HIS OWN 
FORMER RESIDENCE ; A GROUP OF U.S . BUSINESSMEN DONATED A 
WHITE LINCOLN CONTINENTAL . THE CLIMAX CAME WHEN KENYATTA GOT INTO 
HIS NEW CAR AND WAS DRIVEN TO UHURU STADIUM . AT 
FIVE MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT, AS KENYATTA ROSE TO TAKE PART IN 
THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY, PRINCE PHILIP WHISPERED JOKINGLY TO HIM, " ARE 
YOU SURE YOU WOULDN'T LIKE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW ? 
" SMILING, KENYATTA SHOOK HIS HEAD AND, ACCOMPANIED BY BRITAIN'S GOVERNOR 
MALCOLM MACDONALD (WHO WILL STAY ON AS GOVERNOR-GENERAL), WALKED TO THE 
TWO FLAGPOLES IN THE CENTER OF THE STADIUM . IN ORDER 
TO SPARE BRITISH ONLOOKERS ALL POSSIBLE ANGUISH, KENYATTA HAD TACTFULLY ORDERED 
THAT THE LIGHTS BE DIMMED DURING THE MOMENT THE UNION JACK 
WAS LOWERED, AND THEN BLAZED ON AGAIN AS KENYA'S FLAG WAS 
RAISED . THE NEW BANNER : BLACK FOR THE PEOPLE, RED 
FOR THE BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED, AND GREEN FOR THE 
LAND, WITH THIN WHITE LINES INSERTED BETWEEN THE COLORS . THE 
WHITE, SAYS KENYATTA, IS TO ENSURE THAT THE FLAG REPRESENTS ALL 
KENYANS . SLOWLY THE BANNER OF AFRICA'S 35TH NEW STATE UNFURLED 
TO WILD CRIES OF " UHURU ! " AND THE EXPLOSION 
OF FIREWORKS . MINUTES LATER, WORD REACHED THE STADIUM THAT A 
TEAM OF CLIMBERS HAD REACHED THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT KENYA, PLANTED 
THE NEW FLAG AND LIT FLARES THAT ILLUMINATED THE SACRED MOUNTAIN 
" LIKE A FIREBALL . " THE PROBLEMS . DESPITE HIS 
ESTIMATED 73 YEARS (HE CLAIMS NOT TO BE SURE OF HIS 
BIRTH DATE), AND FREQUENT SIGNS OF FATIGUE, KENYATTA IS STILL TALL 
AND BROADSHOULDERED, HIS EYES HUGE AND PIERCING . IN HIS TIME 
HE HAS BEEN A FARM BOY, STUDENT, LABORER, METER-READER, RESPECTED ANTHROPOLOGIST, 
HEADMASTER, CONVICTED TERRORIST AND, FOR DECADES, THE UNPARALLELED IDOL OF MILLIONS 
OF AFRICANS . THE COUNTRY HE NOW RULES CARRIES MOST OF 
ITS OLD ILLS INTO INDEPENDENCE . ABROAD, THE MOST IMMEDIATE PROBLEM 
IS A VIOLENT QUARREL WITH KENYA'S NORTHEASTERN NEIGHBOR, SOMALIA, WHICH LAYS 
CLAIM TO THE BARREN BUT EXTENSIVE NORTHEASTERN REGION, INHABITED BY 200,000 
SOMALIS (SEE MAP) . TO DIMINISH SUCH QUARRELS, KENYA IS EARNESTLY 
PUSHING AN EAST AFRICAN FEDERATION OF KENYA WITH TANGANYIKA AND UGANDA, 
WHICH WOULD CREATE A NATION OF 25 MILLION PEOPLE AND MIGHT 
EVENTUALLY BE EXTENDED TO SUCH SMALL STATES AS ZANZIBAR, NYASALAND, RWANDA 
AND BURUNDI . INTERNATIONALLY, KENYA WILL, OF COURSE, BE NEUTRALIST AND 
ACCEPT AID FROM BOTH EAST AND WEST . INDEPENDENCE BROUGHT ABOUT 
A REUNION OF KENYATTA'S FAR-FLUNG FAMILIES . HIS ENGLISH THIRD WIFE, 
EDNA MAY, AND HER 20-YEAR-OLD SON PETER, A CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATE, FLEW 
TO NAIROBI AND WERE MET BY KENYATTA'S FOURTH WIFE, NGINA, AN 
AFRICAN, AND HIS DAUGHTERS MARGARET, 34, AND JANE, 14, BY HIS 
FIRST WIFE GRACE, ALSO AN AFRICAN . HIS SECOND WIFE, WHOSE 
NAME KENYATTA REFUSES TO DIVULGE, IS SAID TO HAVE DIED ABOUT 
TWELVE YEARS AGO . KENYATTA HIMSELF HAS HARDLY SHOWN ANY COMMUNIST 
SYMPATHIES, BUT HIS HOME MINISTER, OGINGA ODINGA, IS A LEFT-WINGER WHO 
HAS ALREADY SET UP A STATE NEWS AGENCY WITH RUSSIAN AND 
CZECH HELP . HE IS PERHAPS BALANCED BY JUSTICE MINISTER TOM 
MBOYA, WHO IS AT PRESENT POLITICALLY IN THE SHADE, BUT REMAINS 
STRONGLY NATIONALIST AND GENERALLY PRO-WESTERN . AT HOME, KENYATTA MUST RECKON 
WITH A POPULATION THAT IS SOARING AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF 
3.4 PER CENT , AND THOUGH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS WITHIN FIVE 
YEARS TO SETTLE 50,000 AFRICAN FAMILIES ON A MILLION ACRES IN 
THE " WHITE HIGHLANDS " BOUGHT FROM EUROPEAN SETTLERS WITH $80 
MILLION SUPPLIED BY BRITAIN, BY THAT TIME AN ADDITIONAL 100,000 FAMILIES 
WILL BE CLAMORING FOR LAND . KENYA'S HUGE LABOR SURPLUS MUST 
IDLY AWAIT THE SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY, AND THERE IS A 
GREAT LACK OF TRAINED PROFESSIONALS TO REPLACE THE DEPARTING WHITES . 
FOR EXAMPLE, KENYA HAS 750 DOCTORS BUT NEEDS AT LEAST 9,000 
. THE OUTLOOK . PAINSTAKINGLY, KENYATTA PLEADS WITH HIS PEOPLE TO 
ACCEPT HARAMBEE, A SWAHILI WORD MEANING " PULL TOGETHER . " 
HE TELLS AFRICANS THAT THEY MUST CONCEDE FULL PARTNERSHIP TO WHITES 
AND ASIANS, AND TELLS HIS OWN DOMINANT KIKUYU TRIBE THAT THEY 
MUST WORK AMIABLY WITH OTHER TRIBES . THE OPPOSITION KADU PARTY, 
WHICH ELECTED ONLY 31 OF THE 130-MEMBER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IS 
FALLING APART AS MORE AND MORE OF ITS OWN REPRESENTATIVES CLIMB 
ON THE KENYATTA BANDWAGON, LURED BY GOVERNMENT JOBS AND PATRONAGE . 
AS A RESULT, KENYA WILL PROBABLY BECOME A TYPICALLY AFRICAN ONE-PARTY 
STATE, BUT PROBABLY NOT IN SO VIRULENT A FORM AS GHANA 
OR GUINEA . NO ONE CAN IGNORE THE DIFFICULTIES AHEAD THE 
UNEASINESS OF THE REMAINING WHITE SETTLERS, THE FEARS OF THE ASIANS 
WHO CONTROL MOST OF THE NATION'S COMMERCE, THE AGE-OLD TRIBAL RIVALRIES 
THAT COULD EXPLODE INTO SEPARATISM OR TRIBAL WAR . BUT THE 
DEPARTING BRITISH ARE GREATLY IMPRESSED BY KENYATTA'S GROWING STATESMANSHIP . " 
ONLY WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES, " HE TOLD HIS PEOPLE LAST 
WEEK . " NOBODY ELSE CAN SAVE US . IN THE 
PAST WE HAVE BLAMED THE ENGLISHMAN WHEN ANYTHING WENT WRONG . 
WE SAID HE WAS SUCKING OUR BLOOD . NOW THE GOVERNMENT 
IS OURS, AND NOW YOU WILL BLAME KENYATTA . BUT YOU 
SHOULD KNOW THAT KENYATTA, BY HIMSELF, CANNOT GIVE YOU ANYTHING . 
I URGE YOU TO WORK HARD SO THAT OUR UHURU WILL 
BE MEANINGFUL . FROM TODAY ON, OUR MOTTO WILL BE " 
UHURU NA KAZI (FREEDOM AND WORK) . 