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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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KADU representatives at the 1962 Lancaster House negotiations so irritated Oginga Odinga that he titled one of the chapters of his autobiography 'Majimbo gets in the Way of Uhuru'.

Here's a clip of KADU delegate William Murgor's return to Nairobi from the London conference.

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KADU lost the election of 1963, & in 1964 the party dissolved.

Here's Paul Ngei--formerly deputy leader of the opposition--pledging allegiance to KANU outside Parliament, Sept 1963. Ngei: 'I do not want another Congo in Kenya, with little kingdoms fighting each other'.