Kenya African Democratic Union | |
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| Leader | Ronald Ngala |
| Secretary-General | Masinde Muliro? |
| Deputy Leader | Daniel arap Moi |
| Founder | Ronald Ngala Daniel arap Moi |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Dissolved | 1964 |
| Merged into | KANU |
| Ideology | Majimboism |
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The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was a political party in Kenya. It was founded in 1960 when several leading politicians refused to join Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya African National Union (KANU). It was led by Ronald Ngala who was joined by Moi's Kalenjin Political Alliance, the Masai United Front, the Kenya African Peoples Party, the Coast African Political Union, Masinde Muliro's Baluhya Political Union and the Somali National Front.[1] The separate tribal organisations were to retain their identity and so, from the very start, KADU based its political approach on tribalism.[2] KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the so-called KAMATUSA (an acronym for Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu ethnic groups) as well as the British settlers, against the imagined future dominance of the larger Luo and Kikuyu that comprised the majority of KANU's membership, when it became inevitable that Kenya will achieve its independence.[3] The KADU objective was to work towards a multiracial self government within the existing colonial political system.[1] After release of Jomo Kenyatta, KADU was becoming increasingly popular with European settlers and, on the whole, repudiated Kenyatta's leadership.[4] KADU's plan at Lancaster meetings was devised by European supporters, essentially to protect prevailing British settlers land rights.[4]
- ^ a b "African Tribalism, African Socialism and the Goal of Political Democracy in Kenya, p. 69". Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ "Glimpses of Kenya's Nationalist Struggle, Pio Gama Pinto (1963), p. 32" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ Joshia Osamba (2001). "The dynamics of ethnopolitical conflict and violence in the Rift valley province of Kenya". Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 7 (4): 87–112. doi:10.1080/13537110108428646. S2CID 144035968.
- ^ a b "African Tribalism, African Socialism and the Goal of Political Democracy in Kenya, p. 71". Retrieved 18 November 2018.