Tom Mboya

Not yet thirty-one years of age, TOM MBOYA serves on Kenya’s legislative council and is one of Africa’s most dynamic leaders. He held various posts in the union movement until 1953, when he was elected general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labor. “The need for higher education in Africa,” Mr. Mboya says, “was dramatically revealed last summer, when, on the date of its independence, the Congo found itself with a total of eighteen college graduates.”

The new constitution for Kenya provided for the direct elections of Africans by Africans to the colony’s legislative council, and among the eight candidates who were successful in 1957 was a Luo tribesman.TOM MBOYA. Now in his thirtieth year and the general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labor, Mr. Mboya is a spokesman for the worker in Africa and a leader who is being watched with respect by the AFL-CIO.