Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenya Crown Colony, ablaze with Mau Mau revolt, is the northernmost bastion of Britain's East African Empire. Should Suez fall to Egyptian nationalism (see below}, the huge British base at Mackinnon Road, 225 miles southeast of Nairobi, supported by its jet airfields, would almost certainly become the key to British strategy in the western Indian Ocean...
...more skillfully led than at any time since the emergency began." To contain the Mau Mau, who have be gun to mount attacks in company strength, the British have been forced to deploy 5,500 British infantrymen (many of them from the Suez Canal Zone) and 4,000 African Riflemen, at a cost of $700,000 a month. Thousands of Kikuyu are in jail, tens of thousands in hiding, yet Mau Mau gangs terrorize the countryside within sight of Nairobi...
...elusive desperado who dominates Mt. Kenya. One Mau Mau band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after one of his fingers had been shot away); the rest broke and fled...
...whites, divided between Boer and Briton, have rarely disagreed about keeping their preferred position over the 10 million nonwhites. Last week, for the first time since the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the write front was cracked. A band of South African Liberals, among them Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton, formed an unashamedly Liberal Party open to all South Africans, regardless of race. The Liberal Party platform: equal rights, made safe by equal votes, for blacks, whites and browns...
...seen the white man at his worst, and he might have turned cynically against the white man's faith and values. But he has not. The Negro does feel bitter about his lot. But it is a bitterness greatly modified by hope, patience and humor. Negro intellectuals occasionally talk "African nationalism." But the majority of U.S. Negroes feel no more kinship to the Kikuyu of Kenya than to the man in the moon. They want to be, above all, Americans...