On January 20, 1962, Thomas Joseph Mboya, Kenya’s charismatic trade-unionist and rising political star, married Pamela Odede in a grand ceremony at St. Peter Claver’s Catholic Church in Nairobi. The event was widely hailed as the “wedding of the year,” drawing a glittering cross-section of East African and colonial society. The Nuptial Mass was celebrated by Archbishop J. J. McCarthy of Nairobi before an audience of over a thousand guests. Among those present were Jomo Kenyatta, Jaramogi Oginga