Inseparable part of the situation which has been building up since Kenya became independent are dramatic events during the last half of 1969 and the first quarter of 1970 which reached their climax by the arrest and detention of the leaders of the Kenya Peoples’ Union (KPU) and its President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. The recent elections (1970) amounted to a massive vote of no confidence in the KANU government and aging President Kenyatta’s policies. The author poses the questions: 1. What must be done to secure the release of the leaders of the banned KPU and to restore the right of mass political activities in Kenya? 2. How to organise the struggle, and consolidate mass opposition against the neo-colonialist policies of the government and its divide-and-rule policy of tribalism?
