Word: kamba
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...building. As the 17 ministers assembled shortly after midnight, the windows were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
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...
...British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
...days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin had to be content with his discovery of a chain of 23 lakes. Two years later the British sent a punitive expedition to Lhasa, which took the bloom off Hedin's desire to go there...