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07/11/2004:

"How Kenya's best kept secret became a hotbed of insurgents"

Dateline: Saturday, December 12, 1964. At around 3 pm, just as Kenya turned into a republic, the newly sworn-in President Jomo Kenyatta’s convoy drove from State House, Nairobi to the flag-decked Thika Road to officially open what he described as "Kenya's best kept secret" and Jamhuri Day's "big surprise" - the so-called Lumumba Institute.

He didn't know it was a communist school of politics designed to topple him.

Full Article : eastandard.net