Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They lie in wait for them, pounce and start jabbing their forefingers into them before they have had time to sign a hotel register. The points the settlers want to drive home, in loud and often hysterical voices, are mainly three: 1) the Kukes (their name for the big Kikuyu tribe which has spawned the Mau Mau terror fraternity) have only been "50 years down from the trees"; 2) the outside world loves the Kukes and hates the white settlers; 3) most visiting newspapermen are "bloody Bolshies...
...drive through the thickly populated Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that...
...sensibilities, the cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a makeshift corrugated iron cell, they penned eight Mau Mau tribesmen, convicted of the murder of three officials: a Negro policeman, a Negro agricultural adviser and a Kikuyu headman...
...desert outpost of Kapenguria,the Queen's lawyers proceeded in slow, judicial fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino...
...head) to stamp out the terror. So far 13,000 Kikuyus have been rounded up as Mau Mau suspects; several dozen have been killed and four hanged. Yet few white settlers believe the Mau Mau can be crushed until Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the bearded Kikuyu whom the government accuses of masterminding the terrorists, is safely locked away...