Some 53 years ago today, Kenya lost Tom Mboya to bullets fired by an assassin in broad daylight in Nairobi. At 39, Mboya was immensely iconic, a towering Pan Africanist and Kenya’s charismatic Minister for Economic Planning and Development.
A lot has been said about the Mboya assassination that badly rocked the young nation. Did he ignore warnings that his life was under threat and that his death was being planned in high places by enemies determined to stop him in his tracks from succeeding ageing founding President Jomo Kenyatta?