Tom Mboya was 38 years old, charismatic, brilliant, internationally connected and widely seen as a future president of Kenya. On a Saturday morning in Nairobi, he was shot dead outside a pharmacy on Government Road. He was a Luo from the west, and when a Kikuyu man was arrested for the murder, the political implications exploded. Ethnic violence erupted. Kenyatta's government was accused of ordering the assassination. The truth was never established in court. But Kenya lost, in a single morning, one of the most gifted political leaders Africa had ever produced.