The remarkable story of how Kenya traveled, in a very few years, from the trauma of violent revolution to peaceful independence is retold here with full access to official documents. It is a story of strong personalities—of Jomo Kenyatta, after nine years of prison and restriction, emerging as the savior of his country; of Tom Mboya, the talented young man who out-debated, out-maneuvered, and out-shone whites and blacks alike, but who generated an amazing degree of hatred and died by an assassin's bullet; of Iain Macleod, who made the crucial recognition that Kenya was a black African country; and of Malcolm MacDonald, without whom it could still have all ended in disaster. Keith Kyle reported from Kenya on BBC television during these stirring events.