‘FREEDOM AND AFTER’, by
Tom Mboya. Published by Little,
rown & Co. Available upon re
quest at People’s Co-op Book Store.

@
i C)? Dec. 12 Kenya, headed by
Jomo Kenyatta, became the
85th African state to achieve in-
“dependence, Here, in «Freedom
and After,’ we have a first-hand
account of this long and bloody
Struggle. Tom Mboya, whois fa-
Miliar to Americans from his
TV appearances here, has writ-
ten an ingratiating book, inter-
esting and informative, and ex-
hibiting the same charm and de-

|Ceptive Simplicity he himself
‘Shows.

|. Although his own involvement
has been mainly through the trade
. union movement he heads, Mboya
Sives us a comprehensive review
of the whole gamut of problems
faced by the newly emerging
Kenya,
Tribalism (both in its positive
pad negative aspects); education;
ee Service; the land question;
: © advisability of a one-party
eae African Unity; neo-col-
Ken ao economic planning for
; FS after independence; *‘Af-
bold Socialism’; neutrality and
peewee blocs; the attitude of the
1 Pean controlled press in a
onal country — allare cover-
€d here,

_ On this last

Oint, it is inter-
sting to He a

Bec, 6) pent NY: Times,
Bthe on that Kenya is turning to
BE qui let bloc fora news agency.
; Sa uate is already arriving

USSia and Czechoslovakia,
= eS

Drums of freedom beat

and Tass and Ceteka (the Czech
news agency) will give Kenya a
free daily service of international
news.
* * *

Tribalism in Kenya, as in so
much of Africa, isa key problem.
Its emphasis on the common
good, on the necessity for each
to contribute his share to the
community, and the responsibil-
ity of the community in turn to
its members, has much of value,

But the pressing need for unity
is endangered by anarrow, tribal
outlook, which is often exploited
by the colonial powers to break
such unity.

In Kenya itself, the British have
played on tribal divisions topre-
vent establishment of the strong,
centralized state which Mr. Mb-

_oya recognizes is needed.

The chapter on ‘‘African So-
cialism*’ raises doubts. Mr.
Mboya tends to idealize the tribal
virtues, which he presents asa
basis for enonomic planning, to
be combined with private invest-
ment, government planning, and
perhaps nationalization of certain:
parts of industry (power produc-
tion, marketing, and mineralsare
suggested).

This primitive, tribal com~
munism is based on an economy
of scarcity, while today the new
nations must go forward con-
sciously to create an economy

~

ea

Unless this is thor-
oughly understood, tribalism is
more than likely to retard pro-
gress.

Mr. Mboya’s cavalier dismis-
sal of any theoreticalapproachis
not reassuring.

of plenty.

“There is no need in Africa
to argue over ideologies,’’ he
says (P. 169) ‘*... African so-
cialism consists in practice, not
in theory...’’

* * *

The ‘*African Communist” of
July-Sept., 1963, hasan excellent
analysis of this whole concept. As
they point out: ‘‘Socialism is a
definite and specific system of
ideas and society, based not upon
the tribal past but the modern
highly organized and industrial
future.’’

There has been much contro-
versy about Tom Mboya. He is
generally referred to in our press

as ‘-pro-Western’’; he himself in-

sists he is neutral, and only
seems pro-West because of the
necessities of working within the
framework of a British colony.

However his fellow-Kenyans,
Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odin-
ga, do not seem to have found
such a course necessary,

Since Mboya will apparently
play an important part in the
future of Kenya, this book is in-
teresting as a clue tothe thinking
of the man.

—Janet Steele
(US. Worker)

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sponsibilities on a world scale
for the fate of civilization, then
it is ‘‘increasingly imperative’’
that there be unity of the inter-
national Communist movement.

This is the main theme of a
lead article, *‘Unity Is the Guar-
antee of Success’*, appearing in
World Marxist Review for Jan-
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Slavik, Norman Freed and Mou-
rad Kouwatli.

The key to such unity is fidel-
ity to Marxism and the ability
to lead the masses into revolu-
tionary action for the triumph
of socialism.

The current views of the Chi-
nese Communist Party leaders
are described as a new type of
revisionism, using leftist
pseudo - revolutionary phrases,
thus posing ‘‘an extremely ser-
ious danger to international Com-
munist unity.’?

There can be no approval of
the idea of two rival and parallel
Communist parties, existing side

by side, the article asserts.
+ * +

Konni Zilliacus, British Labor
MP, writes on -:The Forces of
the Left in Britain,’? covering
the recent British Labor Party
Scarborough Conference. H. Fa-
gan also deals with the same
subject in a companion feature.

**A Major Issue for the Work-
ing People of Israel,’’ by Esther
Vilenska, member of the polit-
ical bureau of the Communist
Party of Israel, is carried in
the current number,

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Peoples of Latin America Up-
hold Their Rights,’’ covering the
scene in explosive South Amer-
ica; and ‘‘Working Class Unity
in the Developed Capitalist Coun-
tries.”’

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Africa Chad Mitchell Trio
27, 3@ features razor wit

pes the most refreshing
of all the new groups which
have appeared in the realm of
folk singing within the past
several years is The Chad Mit-
chell Trio. -

This group of three young
singers and their two accom-
plished accompanists are like an
oasis of life in the U.S, desert
of mediocrity which passes for
*Sentertainment’’: they represent
to a large degree ‘‘the fresh
winds of change’* on the American
scene, about which so much has
been written and said.

Last Sunday night Van-
couverites had a chance to hear
this remarkable threesome in
person and some 2500 people
responded to the opportunity to
fill the city’s Queen Elizabeth
Theatre,

Howie Bateman (who brought
them here) usually stands at the
door counting the people as they
enter, so accustomed is he to
losing his shirt on certain ven-
tures. But last Sunday he needn't
have bothered for the good name
and reputation. of the Chad
mitchell Trio had obviously pre-
ceded them to Vancouver.

In a full two hours of enter-
tainment the trio showed not only
their superb musicianship and
artistry, but also the reasons
which underlie and underline
their spectacular success.

They fastened their unblinking >

eye on a wide range of topics—
Texas embezzlers, the John
Birch Society, vestiges of Nazism
in West Germany and buds of the
same bitter fruit in the U-S.,
capital punishment, the scourge
of war—and none escaped the
scathing brilliance of their un-
compromising wit,

What’s more, they promised
that their creativity has not yet
run out when Chad Mitchell told
the audience they were working
on a new number, all about the
Senator from Arizona; ‘‘Barely
Holdwater—the fascist gun in the
West!”’

They performed a trilogy of
songs representing ‘‘the new
America’, songs composed by
young people who are taking a
fresh, new look at the world
around them and protesting be-
cause it’s not a pretty thing to

look at. Listed among these was
Bob Dylan’s ‘‘Blowing in the
Wind,’ which they were singing
long before it found its way on
to the Hit Parade,

They also did ‘*Moscow
Nights’’ and ‘‘Song of Youth.”
both in the original Russian

, language, Apart from these two,
the balance of the program was
performed in English,

The only irritating thing about
the whole evening was the fact
that some of the words were lost
during soft passages, This may
haye been due to underplay onthe
part of the vocalists. but was
probably more attributable to
ineffectual handling of the mikes.
Also, to this observer, some of
the presentation tended to be just
a shade too slick.

These, however, are distinctly
minor points which were more
than compensated for over and
over again,

Looking at and listening to the
Chad Mitchell Trio it is easy to
see why the Ed Sullivans, Steve
Allens and so on have shied
away from them. They disturb
the status quo, they shake up the
Establishment, they refuse to
restrict their material to non-
sensical ‘‘respectability’’.

And yet, therein lies also their
strength.

As you leave one of their con-
certs, you somehow get the
feeling that they are well aware

of this. —2J Shack

t is not generally known

that John Reed, the Am-
erican correspondent and ra-_
dical whose eye-witness ac-
count of the Great October
Revolution (*‘Ten Days That
Shook the World’’)has become
a classic, was also a short
story writer of distinction.

A volume of Reed’s short
stories, as well as some of
his more brilliant reportage,
has just been reprinted for the
first time in 30 years by Seven
Seas Books in Berlin.

Titled ‘Adventures of a
Young Man’’ the new Reedtitle
contains short stories written
between 1912 and 1916, as well
as brief pieces about things
Reed saw and experienced in
Mexico, Europe and the young
Soviet Union when he was the
world’s most sought after
journalist and war correspon-
dent.

* * *

Yet another progressive
U.S. writer is enjoying popu-
larity abroad. Two of Alvah
Bessie’s best known vovels -
“Bread & Stone’? and *:The
un-Americans’’ - are seeing
production in foreign lands.

American authors
win new popularity

The novel, ‘‘Bread & Stone’’
is being published in Czecho-
Slovakia by the Publishing,
House of Political Literature
which had previously publish -
ed his *‘The Un- Americans,’’

Alvah Bessie

A television play made by
Bessie(one of the famous Hol-
lywood 10) from the latter
novel will also be produced in
Czechoslovakia by Prague TV
and a radio adaptation of the
novel will be produced by the
British Broadcasting Corpo-
ration.

January 31,

1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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