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“Apart from this struggle, there is the struggle against disease, poverty and ignorance. Unless these three evils are defeated, political freedom would become hollow and meaningless.”

Source: Address at Makerere University College, Kampala, 1 July 1958; printed in 'An Evening with Tom Mboya', Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, p. 5

Context He was then general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labour and a rising nationalist figure, arguing that independence on its own would not lift living standards.

Tom MboyaKenya · 1930–1969

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