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...against the whites, the British finally agreed last week to let their East African colony of Kenya take its first big step toward uhuru-freedom. Ending three weeks of talks in Nairobi with Kenya's tribal-backed political leaders, among them grey-bearded ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys emerged to make his announcement to the press. Elections will be held May 18-26 for the colony's first internal self-government. To be elected under a new, 300-page constitution: seven assemblies, plus a two-house federal parliament with overwhelming black...
...Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries to 125 Islamic centers on five continents. Its tireless printing presses flood Africa with cheap copies of the Koran and pamphlets that shrewdly blend the word of Allah with the word of Nasser...
...effort to win the confidence of African leaders. Socially he kept aloof in his gleaming white Nairobi residence amid its sprawling gardens, inviting the European elite in for an occasional cocktail party (with Lady Renison keeping a close personal eye on the liquor bills). He is particularly disliked by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, who will probably be independent Kenya's first ruler. In 1960, opposing Jomo's release from detention as a ringleader of the 1952"59 Mau Mau terror, Renison warned that Kenyatta would lead the country to "darkness and to death...
...Uhuru!" (Freedom) bellowed the burly, bearded African in red shirt and beaded cap. "Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party...
...KANU's boss, Jomo is not only out of jail and rehabilitated, but is also the hottest prospect to be Kenya's first ruler when the colony becomes a nation, possibly within a year. So far, the electioneering has been fairly moderate, but trouble is threatened by something called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim...