Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...established nation like Nigeria and Ghana. The narrator was a Harlem militiaman in the days of derring-do, but now he is full of "Well, honey's" and "byembys." The children at his knee are snotty little know-it-alls with African nationalist names: Jomo, Sekou, Mboya. But "Grandpa" fascinates them with stories of how Harlemites resisted all threats and blandishments, how they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean suits and warm apartments of the Privileged People. Harlem's early heroes were...
...Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...
...Kenya, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta already had begun to fear that his Kenya Rifles might be the next to rebel. With so much of Kenya's British contingent on duty in Uganda, he asked London for additional troops. Immediately, the 700 Royal Marine Commandos of Britain's home-based strategic reserve were bundled onto Africa-bound planes. But before they arrived, Kenyatta's fears were realized. Mutinous troops of the Kenya Rifles stationed at Nakuru, in the heart of the Rift Valley 100 miles northwest of Nairobi, were up in arms. They seized the armory and locked...
Last week Jomo announced that the general Mau Mau amnesty would end Jan. 15, and thereafter any persons caught carrying unauthorized arms or wearing quasi-military uniforms would be arrested. As tight-lipped police waited to see if Baimungi and his merry band would emerge from the forests, angry Meru villagers were sharpening their own pangas. They knew their local Robin Hood too well, and they planned a little barbering of their...