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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...
Despite the secrecy, a crowd of 2,000 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...
...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 the hot winds have blown the land into a veritable moonscape, Kenyatta insists: "I bear no grudge against anybody. I would borrow from...
...forever, and to dominate the black leadership when the nation finally wins independence. Already a K.L.F.A. plot to kill Ronald Ngala, moderate leader of a prominent African political party, has been unearthed and nipped in the bud. By all reports, the new movement hoped to recruit Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta as its leader once he is permitted to re-enter politics. So far, the movement is too small to force its will on the rising black politicians, but British authorities fear real trouble if the Russians and Chinese, who now have big diplomatic missions in neighboring Somalia, begin pumping clandestine...
...Mboya, Kenya's young leader, who is attractive to the British Colonial Office because he lacks the Mau Mau taint, who heads Kenya's largest political party, but who apparently wants power now only to hand it over to Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British hate and fear...