Press statement from'Africa
and the World! The Kenya Government has banned ‘Africa and the World', the monuny magazine published in London, The ban is in reply to an article written by the editor, Mr. Douglas Rogers, in the current issue criticising Kenya's Finance Minister, Mr. James Gichuru, for his televised statement in Lagos during the recent Commonwealth leaders conference, that Southern Rhodesia was not yet ready for majority rule. He said that Africans in Rhodesia were not so advanced as those in West Africa or Kenya, The ‘Africa and the World! article said that Mr. Gichuru's views were bringing Kenya into international disrepute and called on other leaders in Kenya to disassociate themselves from his statement. Referring also to derogatory remarks about Vice-President Oginga Odinga which Mr. Gichuru made at a London Press Conference, the article said that Mr. Gichuru was "exploiting to his own advantage the truce that was declared in Kenya for national unity", and exploiting the goodwill of leftwingers to "impose reactionary views and policies on the whole Government and country", ’ Mr.Douglas Rogers has had a long association with Kenya politics, He was London secretary of the old Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism, and later he was the first general secretary of the M.C.F. He went to Kenya in 1962, and was the first European to join Kenyatta's KANU, and became the first editor of the KANU paper "Pan Africa", He returned to London in 1964 to start "Africa and the World", “Africa and the World"nas already been banned by South Africa and the Smith Government in Rhodesia,