@mawinder and Jahman

@Hyrrydre and @Mawinder

Its good to hear that you were both in Bush, and both did history. My only worry is that what u learnt in High school seems to have stuck in your heads like gospel truth. And u never took time later to Interrogate any further truth or otherwise, especially of this event in 1969.May be I need to teach the teacher who taught you History.
Ask yourselves, could there have been a third hand in the Kisumu incident?

CHS 403: History of Post colonial Kenya
...Before Mboya's death, he was used to finish Oginga's KPU politically...this was successful.
after this,Mboya had to be eliminated because he was a threat to the "family"- the group that cobbled around Jomo(some were relas, some not). Mboya was youthful, energetic and intelligent, thus the fear of him taking power from Mzee.
When Mboya 'died', the whole country was united against certain group who were perceived to have assassinated him. This threatened to unite the Luos from south and central Nyanza, with the rest of kenyans to join Odinga's KPU, now that there was a general election that same year. The power could leave the house.

That is how a visit to Russia (Kisumu) was organised and booing, heckling and stones had to be thrown by the 'crowd'. Yes it was the 'crowd' that threw the stones and heckled and not the normal crowd. With this 20 people lost their lives and about 100 wounded.
The plot was successful.
Blame it on Odinga. Ban KPU and true to the letter, elections in that year was a walkover for KANU.
I should have mentioned the vehicles marked 'KANU PRIVATE' that transported people to Gatundu and what they went to do, just before this incident.
Questions?
Strictly history quiz, sio siasa.

Great you acknowledge the real violence......of murder and rape!!!!

jana there was violence in certain quarters, guys are mum about it, it is like nothing happned. if it was 'others' bale and hate speach nayo! i whole thread would be 5 pages by now. it is called being castigated because of your heritage!