TOM MBOYA WAS NOT A CIA AGENT?

Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 254 Hace 11 meses

Chris, I thank you very much! I do highly respect your opinions as well! I also agree with you that we mostly should draw our opinions or conclusions from facts whenever they are available. However, when you say "But the facts speak different," what do you mean exactly? What are the facts that has made you to draw these conclusions? Please tell us. You did not even tell us who this Mzungu was in relation to the struggle for self-determination of African peoples globally. When I ask these questions I am cautious of making a distinction between "facts" and "inferences" drawn. I hope you agree that "facts" and "inferences" are not the same thing. Different people may draw different inferences based on the very same facts in question. That is just the nature of "reality" so to speak, depending on whose perception it is. Well, we all know that the CIA is not just a random mysterious person or entity. It is an agency created by the American government through an act of congress in accordance with the American "democratic" norms with a director appointed by the elected president of the United States to conduct its activities on behalf of the American government and by extension the American people. Would you kindly tell us how any foreign dealings between the United States government on one hand and any other foreign government or any other entity, on the other, would engage one another without direct or indirect involvement of the CIA? Now, compound this with the fact that the United States' economy at the time was larger than the economies of all the countries of the world put together and that they wielded a lot of power at the United Nations, NATO, and virtually all the colonial powers of the day being under their control. Even so, it was no secret that Tom Mboya was a prominent Pan African leader who not only advocated for but brilliantly rallied the world to push for the agenda for the independence and self-determination of all the African peoples of the world who were suffering from the scourge of colonialism and racial oppression. He was also a budding international trade union leader in his own right who saw an opportunity and need to consolidate into a coalition the two struggles and bring them to the fore as one struggle for humanity; namely the struggle by the Pan African movement (with its civil rights component) on one hand, and the the International Labor movement on the other, which have historically been looked upon by the American government with suspicion to this day; hence, the American labor unions inviting Tom Mboya to America for his very first visit in 1956 when he was only 26. The labor movements, in fact, paid his air ticket and expenses with arrangement and coordination of his speeches at the university campuses across the United States during his visit there. This visit also precipitated his vision for Africa's future by launching the funds drive for the African students' scholarships and the famous "airlift" to America. Most of these students hailed from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Congo. Of course, these countries were still under the colonial rule.