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In honour of #SabaSabaAt30: here's a series of @Reuters clips about the Kenya African Democratic Union, Kenya's 1st opposition party.

KADU was formed in 1960. Below: 1964 rally in Nairobi addressed by a young Martin Shikuku, Daniel arap Moi, & KADU president Ronald Ngala. 1/5
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KADU drew Kenya's regional parties together to advocate for a federal system of govt.

Below: 1962 meeting of the Masai United Front. Calls for 'a vigorous struggle to have Masai land...returned to its rightful owners, the Masai people'. Calls for an independent Masai state.
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KADU proposed to create 6 regional assemblies, each equal to parliament in Nairobi.

Here's a 1962 meeting in Kitale, showing Masinde Muliro laying the foundation stone for an assembly building.

In honour of the occasion the baby in the film was christened 'Majimbo'.
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Sometimes in 1990, two political ‘dissidents’ went to Cargen House in Nairobi’s Moi Avenue.

Controversial former Kitutu Masaba MP George Anyona and his neighbour in Madaraka Estate Njeru Kathagu #SabaSabaAt30 #SabaSabaMarchForOurlives
But Anyona and Kathangu, who had both tasted the wrath of the system by being jailed and detained for contradicting the Kanu regime, warned their host that the government had demonstrated willingness to ruthlessly deal with dissidents.
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The mission was to rein in a man disgraced by the ruling party Kanu and thrown into the political cold. Their meeting with Kenneth Matiba had been brokered by former powerful Cabinet Minister Simeon Nyachae, who was now being treated as a Kanu pariah.
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