Tom Mboya was a Kenyan statesman, freedom fighter, independence activist, trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, and author who was one of the founding fathers of independent Kenya.
Tom Mboya was born Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya into the Luo tribe in Kilima Mbogo in Kenya Colony on August 15, 1930, to Leonardus Ndiege and Marcella Awour.
Mboya schooled at St. Mary’s School in Yala. In 1946, he attended the Holy Ghost College which was later named Mang’u High School the proceeded to do his Cambridge School Certificate.
Mboya joined the Royal Sanitary Institute’s Medical Training School for Sanitary Inspectors at Nairobi and then received a scholarship from Britain’s Trades Union Congress to attend Ruskin College, University of Oxford, where he studied industrial management.
He returned to Kenya to join the fight against Britain’s colonization of the country, delivering a number of public speeches, participated in debates, and making quotes to express himself.
As a politician, he served as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Minister for Labour, and Minister for Economic Planning and Development.
Funeral, Assassination video, University college, and Street
Mboya died on 5 July 1969 at 38 through assassination in Nairobi Kenya.
Here’s a video released after he was rushed to the hospital, viewer discretion is advised.
His funeral was attended by literally every Kenyan. Here’s a video recorded at his funeral.
Years after his demise, a tertiary institution, “Tom Mboya University College” was in memory of him. One of the major streets in the Central Business District of Nairobi was also named after him as “Tom Mboya Street”