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...secret was the operation that each of the three aircraft involved took off carrying sealed orders. But once they understood their mission, the pilots understood the security. They were on their way to Maralal airstrip, 200 miles from Nairobi, to bring home Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta. the man the British sent to jail in 1953 for organizing the ferocious Mau Mau terror. After eight years. Kenya's Governor Sir Patrick Renison had convinced both himself and the Colonial Office in London that British forces could handle any threat to public order posed by the old African nationalist...
...blacks was on hand to greet Kenyatta when he got home to Gatundu. Men had shinnied up cypress, mango and pawpaw trees for a better look; Kikuyu women showed up with their faces and bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint. They banged on drums, cheered and sang Jomo Kenyatta Is Coming Home At Last, a song especially composed for the occasion. The Burning Spear (a Kikuyu title for the bravest warrior of all) acknowledged the greeting with an imperious wave of his horsetail fly whisk, then briskly got down to the business of making peace between Kenya...
...Grudge. It was the same old Jomo. The spade beard was mottled with grey, but the clothes that he wears like a uniform-brown leather jacket, baggy corduroy trousers, red tie-were the same as the clothes he wore at the time of his arrest by the British in 1952. Now as then, he denies complicity in the Mau Mau terror which cost the lives of more than 13,000. Says Kenyatta: "I have never been a violent man. My whole life has been antiviolence." As for the eight years of detention, partly spent at remote Lodwar, where...
...arguable that the economy is likely to be more damaged by the uncertainty of [Kenyatta's] continued restriction.'' Finally, as the British realized that there could be no stable government in Kenya without black leadership, and that there could be no black leadership without Jomo Kenyatta, his release became inevitable. To reassure panicky whites, Kenyatta now says that they may keep their farms even after independence, "if they think of themselves as Kenyans and demand no special privileges...
...their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time goes on, Africans will be in the majority position and their voice will be the predominant voice." And quite possibly. the predominant voice in Kenya will be that of Jomo Kenyatta...