Tom Mboya the white man's choice 

"A Single Bullet In The Right Direction Can Change The Course Of A Nation"

The best President Kenya never had!

Thomas Joseph mboya his charismatic skills outmatched everyone including the white man... mboya was very close to presidency and still very far from it..His assassination in July 1969 has got so many conspiracy theories..May his soul continue resting in peace..our hero.. even though I was born 25yrs later after his death, his power , charisma, leadership and service his gave this country during pre-colonial Kenya ; is felt.

The visionary Kenya wanted to forget, but never did!

Tom mboya was just a genius, he accomplished so much in those era's despite being a young guy

Where would Kenya be today, i cry blood for this man.

The big man that send that mo'fo to eliminate Mboya was definitely Mzee Kenyatta!

Now we are mourning ogola😭why always Luos😭😭

The man Kenya could not forget.

It's hard to imagine how much Tom,s brilliance would have achieved for our country had he lived longer.Sadly we will never know.that was a very dark time in our history.

Very good analysis of historical events in Kenya in the early years of "cold".

A true hero. Could Kenya have found another destiny had Mboya lived?

Accepted, Luos do give birth to leaders

This is such a brilliant documentary, it confirms exactly what I've been thinking this last 18 months or thereabouts and it explains why Kenya is the way it is. People think Ruto is the problem, but he's only a symptom of the problem, the current set up in Kenya (and African as a whole) were planned many years ago. As one of the interviewees said, President Truman was given a paper on Africa in 1947 (shortly after the 2nd World War). If Africans want to understand why we are where we are, we need to look at the rise of Europe after the 2nd World War; the USA devised the Marshall Plan and gave Europe £13 BILLION to rebuild (£175 BILLION in today's money), whilst African countries were given NOTHING to start the post colonial development programmes. Africanist leaders were ousted (Nkurumah) or assassinated (Lumumba) and stooges (yes men) were left to thrive- I'll leave it to you to figure out who were the Africanists and Yes men in Kenya. All I can say is, people need to stop blaming Kenyatta for ALL the assassinations that took place, some of those moves were above his pay grade.

Mobutu of Zaire was the choice the white

Mboya was the single-most author of Kenyans modern day marginality of vast swathes of geographies and it’s people

What is outstanding to me is how Njonjo kept mum about Mboya to the grave, in spite of being buddies and confidants. He was even the best man in Mboyas wedding yet he did not attend the funeral. For me, I believe Njonjo took all Mboya's secret information to the grave. Those guys were so close, very close there was also a rumour that, Njonjo wanted to "connive" and enable Mboya to ascend to power. Anyway, may their souls rest in peace. Wherever they are, they know better!

😢😢 sad ... Really sad to know that the villains in our country are worshipped.. Just like Moi

If Mboya would have become president alliance with the west could have had a positive impact on kenya despite the exploitation that could have come with it

Sleep Well Tom Mboya 😢💚💛❤️

Tom Mboya, the man the country will never forget...

I am happy to see my teacher prof Gathogo

The man who coordinated students uplifts to acquire knowledge in other countries, in order to plough back, that's Development.

I'm proud of Luo Tom mboya would have been Kenya's 2nd President

May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Our own Mboya is the President here in South Africa. It is not so good, you are lucky he didn't make it to power.

He was not pro Capitalism nor pro Socialism. He was Pro Pan African.

Africans doesn't know to groom and mentor upcoming leaders May Thomas Mboya continue resting in peace Iknemboya when I read his sessional policy paper of 1965 At ksg

No single person has that power to change anything. Humans change when they want

Honored to meet Agutu Rosa in person During this year's 1998 Bomblast Memorial documentary

Kenyans will never get such a leader,,

Well done KTN. Brilliant job. They said a lot without saying too much. Sasa ni kwa wa Kenya kujaza pengo.

Fear is the most nightmare, to those who can't assess it internally, the end result is unpleasant and strife becomes a norm.

we lost a brilliant man same to Ouko...why do the good leave and we left with the bad and rotten

It's about tribalism is killing Kenya , Tom was most genius of all in Kenya and kikuyu killed him for jealous of him, Tom is much hated by kikuyu and those of Ruto nothing more nothing less😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Your good analysts do not tell us why one should be killed for his intelligence and talent?

So sad😢😢😢

Mboya was eliminated by CIA. He was the secretary to kwame nkhuruma of Ghana in African union at a time there was rallying to have united states of Africa. Also his association with Martin luther king in civil rights movement in the us. During this period the west were eliminating any black leader they deemed a threat to imperialism and capitalism. Mboya was a proponent of african socialism at a time there was conflict between communism and capitalism. JF kennedy was a supporter of black struggle movement and a critic of state of israel therefore the establishment saw him a threat. They had to eliminate malcom x, pio gama pinto, martin luther, J F kennedy, mboya. They also sponsored many coups in africa.

If he was indeed the white man's choice, then probably we as a country dodged a bullet.

TJ was the most farsighted and consequential political leader Kenya ever had. That is why he remains the most remembered among departed Kenyan politicians. Good on Macharia Munene for his scholarly approach to history. Shame on Wafula Buke for treating history as though it is tabloid journalism.

Ms. Agutu Rosa and KTN, are you seriously going to turn a Kenyan Hero into a villain? Classic Main Stream Media, using the ignorance of some Kenyans to distort history. The professors sound more like propagandists than academicians !!! A lot of facts are left out, and some of the information seems like hearsay and very biased indeed. Most African leaders at that time studied in the West....does that make them traitors? Jomo Kenyatta was worse. He lived in the UK during the struggle for independence and even married a British woman during that time??? What is so wrong with knowing the language of your enemies.... I think that was super brilliant of Tom Mboya. That's how he and the rest managed to negotiate for independence at Lancaster. A man allied to Martin Luther King, and JF Kennedy must have been thinking of black people's rights....getting an audience with these high calibre of humans is no joke. A man thinking of uniting Africa....amazing! Isn't that the dream of every Pan-Africanist? A united and powerful Africa against the West? What is wrong with using your connections to educate fellow Africans at some of the best universities in that time? A selfish man, thinking of his own greed for power, would not care about such things. KTN-shame on you.

Ah, Macharia and Gathogo hmmm... don't you do yourselves justice!! "The west made Mboya" please!!!!

What is wrong with being Pro West. He would have been kenya's best shot Until 2010 we hadn't really practiced democracy. And we can attest that freedom of speech is everything nowadays. So he would have been Ideal for kenya from long

While it certainly true that Mboya was the blue eyed boy of the West, he was also groomed as the antithesis of the Soviet leaning Jaramogi and there existed a bitter rivalry between the two something none of those scholars has touched on. Kenyatta saw this as an opportunity to curtail Jaramogi and exploited it. Further, this notion that Kenyatta was a maumau or a freedom fighter needs to be dispensed with. In fact, he never participated in any freedom struggle and was himself a manchurian candidate for the British, who paid for his stay in England as they groomed him to take over from them. This was debunked by the true freedom hero Bildad Kaggia in 1985. Do people ever ask how he switched names from Kamau to Kenyatta and what the thinking and inclination behind that. He betrayed the freedom struggle that he was never part of and took over the land that had been set aside as resettlement schemes all over the country, from Northlands to Taveta , Kedong Valley and Nakuru.

Freedom will come

If he was pro-west then we'd be completely screwed.

If mboya would have lived, Kenya could have been far in development

Kikuyu always sellouts

Very sorry Africa lost good leader Arthur Meddy from Uganda

Regardless of what the professors think, Tom Mboya was an extremely intelligent individual. He should have been given a chance...we would probably have had it better post indipendence.

Mboya could have been the best president (tree terms) if had joined hands with "KADU" together with his community instead of kanu! The late Ronald G. Ngalla, the father of devolution/ Majmbo persuaded them both (Jaramogi & him) but opted for kanu.They both gave oxygine to the party that turned against them! Jaramogi had to turn to Ngalla, Moi, Muliro, take their community on board and join KADU to face jomo´s dictatorship but decided to go solo and formed the "KPU" he failed miserable. Shall raila end the same way? Mboya is the uncrowed king/ prince of kenya.

Kenyatta knew the damage he will cause on him if he lived😢

The man Kenya wanted to forget

Kikuyu hace fone alto of damages yo lyo community but God is watching one day!!!!!

You've allowed your analysts to bring their bias and revisionist history.

Rest in peace

this is what is happening in Kenya even today

The white mans choice?

The president who never was

He sent my uncle to the USA on an Airlift

Mbuya Taya

He was a CIA plant.

They always say one tribe saved kenya am beggining to think it is a lie

Greetings from Ghana, he would have sold us out

Like these guys sound extremely jelous bro😂😂😂😂

Is this News anchor called Cynthia?

Ruto is also the white man's choice... Connect the dots

Mboya was brilliant intellectually but not wise. If only he had listened to Oginga Odinga😢

Did he buy lotion or medicine from the pharmacy?

Can Macharia Munene's position be corroborated? I smell some bias

"If he was the white man's choice" then I doubt he would have been the great leader potraid.

Hi nayo iliumanga Jomo...mafafu walimdishi

What do you mean, "the white man's choice"?

How is this julius gathogo a professor really?

The killers also died

Watching this, i believe mboya wasthe man ideal for kenya and africa considering his age. This is now history, but i think the new mboya is William Ruto but lacks some virtues mboya had. Mboya the kenya leader we never had

Dude is just overated.CIA agent