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STANFORD LIBRARIES V " KANU StanfordUniversityLibraries 3 6105 120 852 350 offers YOU Kenya African lateral inson JQ2947 A98K3A3 te б а н к a STANFORD LIBRARIES r e u r 3 c he 7 А LIBRARY c 4 З eu 99 K 42 х 1 T 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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 . 7 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. 8