page_title: Tom Mboya
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Mboya / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The Tom Mboya Monument is along the Moi Avenue of Nairobi Kenya. It was erected in 2011 in honor of Tom Mboya, a Kenyan Minister who was assassinated in 1969.Unknown
context_page_description: Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. He spearheaded the negotiations for Independence at the Lancaster House Conferences and was instrumental in the formation of Kenya's independence party, the Kenya African National Union, which he served as its first Secretary General. He laid the foundation for Kenya's capitalist and mixed economy policies at the height of the Cold War and set up several of the country's key labour institutions.
  Mboya's intelligence, charm, leadership and oratory skills won him admiration from all over the world. He gave speeches, debates, and interviews across the world in favour of Kenya’s independence from British colonial rule and spoke at several rallies in favour of the civil rights movement in the United States. In 1958, at the age of 28, Mboya was elected Conference Chairman at the All-African Peoples' Conference convened by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. He helped build the Trade Union Movement in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and across Africa.
context_section_description: Thomas Odhiambo Mboya was born on 15 August 1930 in Kilima Mbogo, near Thika town in what was called the White Highlands of Kenya.
caption: A monument in honor of Tom Mboya erected at Moi Avenue, Nairobi
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