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A personal message
from Jomo Kenyatta
This booklet contains the outline ofthe policy which your
K.A.N.U. Governmentwill carryout. Immediately after the
elections we shall negotiate with the British Government for
the holding of a final constitutional conference. At that
meeting thenecessary arrangements for Kenya's early inde
pendence will be made.
Our achievement of independence, for which we have
struggled for so long, will not be an end in itself. It will give
us the opportunityto work unfettered for the creation of a
democratic African socialist Kenya.
DEMOCRATIC because we believe that only in a free
society can each individual develop his talents most fully to
serve his fellow citizens. There will be no place in the Kenya
we shall create for discrimination by race, tribe, beliefor any
other manner. The personal rights and safety of all and of
their property will be protected.
AFRICAN because our nation must grow organically
fromwhatis indigenous. Whileadaptingthatwhich issuitable
from other cultures, from the East and from the West, we
must give our people pride and self-respect, building upon
all thatis goodand valid in our traditional society.
SOCIALIST because political freedom and equality are
notenough. Ourpeoplehavetherighttobefreefrom economic
exploitation andsocial inequality. We aim to build acountry
where men and women are motivated by a sense of service
and not driven by a greedy desire for personal gain. Every
one ofyou has a duty to help create this new nation. You
must strive to exercise yourrights fully and with under
standing. Above all, the future prosperity upon which our
plans, our hopes, our aspirations,depend,needs your efforts.
Whatever your task in our society we must have hard work
from you ifwe are to make a success ofour independence.
JomorСSatte
YOUR
FAMILY
The family is the fundamental unit both in
our traditional society and in the Welfare
Socialist State we are to build.
YOUR HOME
Too many ofour people still live in unsanitary dwellings,
or occupy mere bed spaces, which fail to provide the back
ground conditions for a decent home life.
The K.A.N.U. GOVERNMENT will rectify this by:
(a) The backing oflocal government, employer and private
housing schemes, including tenant purchase arrangements;
(b) The provision of plans, technical information and
similar assistance to individual house-builders;
(c) The encouragement of self-help, communal home
building, such as our people have always practised.
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HEALTH
No family or society which goes constantly in fear of
sickness, disease or sudden death can aspire to a full and
happy life.
Moreover, the HARD WORK which we shall require of
every citizen depends upon fitness and good health.
We must start by expanding staff and medical facilities
with a view to reducing our infant and maternal mortality
rate.
Kenya's leading position in Africa in the development of
medical centres and medical teams is something ofwhich we
can be proud. We shall continue to lead in this field.
The K.A.N.U. GOVERNMENT will see that more ofour
educated young men and women pursue medical studies to
the graduate level to improve the doctor/population ratio.
The traditional respect and care for the aged among our
people must continue and find modern expression in the use
ofthe latest aids to their wellbeing.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL AIM
AT FREE TREATMENT AND
HOSPITALISATION FOR ALL
CITIZENS.
WHILE ANYONE WILL BE AT
LIBERTY TO PAY FOR MEDICAL
SERVICES, WE NEED HARDLY
SAY TTHHAATT RACIAL HEALTH
INSTITUTIONS OR SCHEMES
WILL HAVE NO PLACE IN
INDEPENDENT KENYA.
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YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
Having raised a healthy family your concern will be to see
that your children have adequate schooling.
K.A.N.U. intends that every child in Kenya shall
have aa minimum ofseven years' free education.
The first aim of that education will be to produce good
citizens, inspired with aa desireto serve their fellow men. The
democracy we shall create is more than a set of laws and
institutions. It will depend upon the understanding partici
pation by all the people in the democratic processes. The
vestiges of a colonialist mentality in the educational system
must go.
The next aim will be to set our young people's feet on a
path of instruction which will correspond with the require
ments of the new nation and meet their desire for careers.
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WE MUST BEAR IN MIND THAT
WHILE WE INTEND TO ACCELE
RATE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP
MENT OUR GREATEST NEED IS
FOR EFFICIENT FARMERS.
More attention will be paid to this need at every level.
Agricultural colleges will be expanded; rural education work
will be increased. Community development and self-help
schemes will be geared to the aim ofaccelerating the agrarian
revolution.
To meet the requirements of the Civil Service and the
needs ofour plans for industrial expansion,therewill haveto
be a great expansion ofour university and technical training
facilities.
Adult education, evening classes and weekend and short
course schools of every kind will be increased. Help will be
given to the self-help educational programmes of trade
unions, co-operatives and local communities. Every citizen
lucky enough to possess some education or skill should be
prepared to pass on his knowledge to those less fortunate. In
particular those who can read will teach those who cannot.
In the great task of educating our people the continued
participation of the Missions and other voluntary agencies
who have served us so wellin the pastwillbewelcomed.
Parents will be free to arrange for the education of their
children in private schools on a genuinely non-racial, non
communal basis.
Education must include the creation of one nation and
this K.A.N.U. believes can best be done by non-racial
education and thegrowingtogetherofall our youth.
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YOUR
SHAMBA
The agrarian revolution already in progress in
Kenya will be accelerated. The production of crops
for the market is recognised as the backbone of our
economy. The K.A.N.U. Government will see to it that
changes are made in the under -developed areas, for
only by a dynamic break-through in farming methods
shall we finance the Welfare State we intend to build.
LAND CONSOLIDATION
To this end every farmer must be sure of his land rights.
Consolidation and the registration oftitle will be encouraged
wherever the people so desire. The existence of such titles
as security will facilitate the granting of loans by govern
mental and private agencies. We recognise some areas have
a communal system ofland ownership and will devise means
ofgiving credit security facilities even in such cases.
CO-OPERATIVES
Co-operation for farming purposes is a deeply ingrained
practice among the people ofKenya. Such an attitude will be
encouraged, extended and given forms appropriate to pro
duction for the market.
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Building upon our own traditions we shall borrow and
adapt what we find valid in the methods ofother lands. We
are DEMOCRATIC socialists and any type of co-operative
practice which is introduced must have the full support of
the people concerned.
PASTORAL PEOPLE
The colonialists failed to bring education to the herdsmen
of Kenya, Masai, Kalenjin, Turkana, Boran, Gabra, etc. and
used this as an excuse for the failure to encourage economic
and social advance among them.
Masailand and the Northern Province will have a special
place in the development plans ofthe K.A.N.U. GOVERN
MENT. Complementary to the provision of water holes,
roads and improved veterinary services we shall educate the
pastoral people to adopt a modern attitude to their stock.
The vast potential ofthese areas for meat production must be
realised in order that they may pay for the improvements.
THE LANDLESS
The problem ofthe unemployedlandless will be vigorously
tackled and resettlement in the Scheduled Areas has a part
to play in meeting their desperate needs. At the same time
we are aware that this process cannot continue indefinitely.
We cannot afford to fragment economic farms which are
making a vital contribution to our national prosperity into
units producing little more than subsistence.
The main solution will lie in our determination to
increase agricultural efficiency in all areas.
This will provide a basis for rural and cottage industries
andforregularagriculturalemploymenttoabsorbthelandless.
Attention will also be paid to the siting of larger industrial
projects in rural areas where appropriate. Our plans for
urban industrialisation will also help to solve this pressing
problem .
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LARGE ESTATES
The K.A.N.U. GOVERNMENT will not tolerate the
holding oflarge under-developed tracts ofland by anyone. At
the same time those who have farms, estates and ranches
making a full contribution to the economy need have no fear
ofexpropriation.
Agricultural education, re
search and services will be
increased but none of these
will be of much avail unless
you, the farmer, make every
effort to learn and acquire the
skills which are taught and
implement them on your own
holding with REAL HARD
WORK.
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