William 'Willie'Jones, the son of William Jones, was a pioneer in education on the East African coast (Harris, 1977, pp. 32-37); James 'Jimmy' Jones, another of his sons, became Kenya's first printer and produced most of the religious and educational material for missions throughout eastern Africa in English and Kiswahili (Harris, 1977, p. 42). The Rabaians and Freretownians provided editors for the first English and Kiswahili publications, including the Coast Express, Sauti ya Madu, Hodi, Sauti ya Pwani, Baraza and Mwalimu (Harris, 1977, p. 53). Jimmy Jones and other Bombay Africans of Freretown connected with Jomo Kenyatta and Mbiyu Koinange (Harris, 1977, p. 66), who were champions of Kenyan independence. In 1944, the colonial government formed the Kenya African Study Union (KASU), an organization of which the aim was to represent the developing educated Africans. Among its founding members were Harry Thuku (1895-1970), as president, and Freretownian Francis Khamisi, who was the editor of Mwalimu, as secretary (Khamisi, 2014, pp. 29-30). KASU soon changed its name to the Kenya African Union (KAU) (Okoth, 2006, p. 74). Harry Thuku was also a close friend of Freretownians Jimmy Jones (Thuku, 1970, p. 23) and Tom Mbotela. The latter was originally assistant editor of the newspaper Sauti ya Mwafrika from 1946 to 1947. The newspaper served as a voice for the KAU, and Mbotela was made its trustee in 1948. In 1949, he was appointed as vice-president of the leading legal mouthpiece of Kenyan independence (Corfield, 1960, p. 55). Tom Mbotela was regarded by colonials and Africans alike as a moderating influence in the difficult period of the rise of the Mau Mau. Unable to stem the direction of the Mau Mau, he resigned from the KAU and was appointed to Nairobi City Council. He was assassinated in September 1952 in Nairobi (Elkins, 2005, p. 38), where an estate has been named after him.