Tom Mboya, the forgotten visionary in the Barack Obama story

Tom Mboya

In early 1960s, three students, beneficiaries of the US airlift programme, wrote a poignant thank-you letter published in the East Africa Standard.

The letter was directed at Thomas Joseph Mboya, Julius Gikonyo Kiano, Kariuki Njiiri, William Scheinman, George Houser and a few other individuals involved in assisting young Kenyan students secure scholarships in American institutions of higher learning through the African-American Scholarship Fund (AASF).