Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Communist was making Sanders of the River. He married an English schoolteacher, Edna Grace Clarke, and had a son named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...
...five-day tour of North African air bases, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway took time out to join a hunting party in the Atlas mountains organized by the Pasha of Marrakech. The trip's bag: 17 mountain goats...
...pangas, set fire to native huts. But instead of panic-stricken people rushing out to be cut to bits by the attackers' arms, an alerted Home Guard opened fire, killed 21 Mau Mau. In the same area, a platoon of 20 Negro soldiers of the King's African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang of 100 Mau Mau in a two-hour battle in which 24 Mau Mau were killed, including a Mau Mau oath administrator...
Each volunteer takes the following pledge when he joins the movement: "We, the oppressed people of South Africa, hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to carry on a relentless struggle to repeal the unjust laws as laid down in the plan of action of the African National Congress, supported by the South African Indian Congress, the Colored Peoples Organization, and other freedom-loving peoples. We shall do all in our power, to the utmost limits of endurance and sacrifice, to carry out the Congress Call against unjust laws which subject our people to political servility, economic misery and social degradation. From this...
...measure of success, it will have importance far beyond the borders of South Africa. It may help to temper the terrorism of the Mau Mau group in Kenya. It will give new hope to nonviolent efforts for independence in West Africa. It could lead to a democratic, pan-African movement for freedom based on nonviolence. This would be of great significance not only for Africa but to the whole world...