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Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies

Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies

Date
5 Jul 1969
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies

Founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party (NCPC) and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National Union (KANU), Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was born on 15 August 1930. After Kenya‘s independence in 1963, Mboya became Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and later Minister of Economic Planning and Development. Mboya was assassinated on 5 July 1969 in Nairobi CBD as he was coming from the pharmacy. Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge was identified as the assassin and was convicted and hanged. There were rumours that Jomo Kenyatta was involved in the assassination as he was threatened by Mboya, but this was never proven.

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  1. 01Boddy-Evans A.Thomas Joseph Mboya from About African History [online] Available at: https://africanhistory.about.com  [Accessed on 27 July 2013]
  2. 02Tom Mboya Biography [online] Available at: www.tommboya.org [Accessed on 26 July 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2013, June 28). Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095981

South African History Online (2013) 'Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies', South African History Online, 28 June. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095981 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).

South African History Online, Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095981, (accessed 30 July 2026).

"Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies." South African History Online, 28 June 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095981. Accessed 30 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Kenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies." South African History Online. June 28, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095981.

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