Word: embu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that he declared to Legco the imminent end of the official state of emergency under which Kenya has been ruled since the days of 1952, when the bloody Mau Mau uprising gripped the East African colony. For the revolt-infected tribes-the Kikuyu, Embu and Meru-it would mean the end of the passbook system that rigidly limited their travel, and the end of forced communal labor and mandatory residence in villages. For 3,000 prisoners still behind bars or barbed wire for revolutionary activity, it would mean freedom under a sweeping amnesty program; only a few score...
Other students patiently spelled the names of their tribes: Kikuyu. Luo, Embu, Meru. Kamba, Kalenjin. Aba-luhya. And why had Samuel Mutisya and Frank Nabutete chosen, of all places, a Negro college (Philander Smith) in Little Rock, Ark.? "I want the experience," mused Student Nabutete. "It might be useful when I go back home...