The chief constitutional adviser to the Africans was Dr Thurgood Marshall, a black American lawyer, later to become a judge in the US Supreme Court. Before the conference, he had written an anti-imperialist article in a Baltimore newspaper accusing Kenya Europeans of being colonial exploiters who had never even taken the trouble to learn the local language. So, at one of the conference sessions, Sir Michael Blundell formally tabled a motion for proceedings to be conducted in Swahili, a language spoken fluently by all the Kenya Europeans present, but not at all by Thurgood Marshall.
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