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Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, gained admission with a time of 29:30. Donald R. Jomo 1G and John S. Carnes 3L posted times of 29:29 and 29:45 respectively...
...fastened with a gaily embroidered native belt. In Kenya such belts are called kenyattas, and from his fondness for wearing them, the man had derived his last name. His first name had been of his own choosing, the Kikuyu word for an unsheathed dagger or a poised, burning spear: Jomo...
...Jomo Kenyatta, a proud, able, warped and lonely man, is a symbol of the sad conflict of civilization and savagery, a leader of his people who used the skills civilization taught him to give savagery a new kind of power. He was an orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician...
Last week, in the little red schoolhouse in Kapenguria, Jomo Kenyatta stood up for sentence, accused of having used his influence to foment unrest among the Kikuyu tribes, and of "managing the Mau Mau," the secret terrorist organization which has murdered 542 uncooperative Kikuyu and nine whites in the past year. Said Kenyatta, in a soft, purring voice: "We have not received justice . . . None of us would condone the mutilation of human beings. We have families...
...friends in Mombasa, 300 miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court verdict on London-educated Jomo Kenyatta, alleged leader of the Mau Mau, is delivered...