Answer:
D. Kenyatta’s government restricted elections and freedom of speech.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Kenyatta Introduces a one-party regime. The president practices an authoritarian and clientelistic policy to ensure national unity. Kenya became a republic on December 12, 1963, with Kenyatta as its first president. He tried to maintain cordial relations with neighboring countries although this was difficult at times, especially with the Idi Amin Dada regime in Uganda. In 1967 the East African Community was created, an economic union of the three countries, considered as a first step for political unification; This intention gradually disappeared, although at the beginning of the 1980s the members of the old community considered its restoration. The moderate and stable policy of the Kenyatta government attracted a large number of foreign investors; a new industrial area was established near Thika, and the central area of Nairobi was modernized. The tourism industry, based on large national reserves of wildlife, quickly expanded to become the most important source of foreign currency. Kenyatta was recognized at the time of his death in 1978 as Mzee, (the old sorcerer), not only by his own people but by a wide array of world leaders.
- Nkrumah banned regionalist or religious political parties, and to eradicate the opposition put into effect the act of preventive detention, by which the prime minister was allowed to arrange arrests without trial. Such was the case of Danqua, the leader of the UGCC, who died in prison, while Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was at the head of the opposition United Party (UP), formed by the NLM and others, decided to go into exile in London. When the republic was consecrated, in 1960, Nkrumah was elected president for life. Nkrumah promoted the unity of the continent (through the Union of African States) to face the political pressures of the great poles of power. Internally, he promoted education, extended health services and made large public investments, creating state-owned companies and building the Volta electrometallurgical complex, with funding from Western banks. The colonial economic bases, however, were not modified. The income continued to come from the export of cocoa, whose price had not stopped falling in the international market. During the government of Nkrumah Kofi Baako was Minister of Education and Information.