Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in their lives, Capricorn's delegates sat in free and equal congress last week to consider their common problems. Sir William Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas, and Lady Murphy sat side by side with three Kikuyu tribesmen who had defied Mau Mau threats of assassination to travel from Kenya. Peppery little Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton came in from Natal, mingled with white doctors and teachers and black farmers. At night, over beer and sandwiches, everyone lounged together and talked, while tall, lanky David Stirling strolled about, arguing, urging, explaining...
There, in the heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
...police drives and by surrenders induced by government promises of good treatment. But a diehard gang of natives still hides out in the mountain forests, and Missionary Devitt decided to appeal to them directly. With little thought for his own safety, Devitt gathered eight surrendered terrorists and a Kikuyu clerk and went up the mountain, unarmed, with his portable sound equipment...
...Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William Baldwin, a young American...
...Kikuyu are no longer living in huts scattered through the reserves, and thus vulnerable to Mau Mau threats, but have been brought together into 850 villages, all policed and protected at night. On the fairway of No. 3 hole at Nyeri Golf Club, the square black tent which housed the gallows from which scores of Mau Mau were hanged has been taken away, and at Thomson's Falls, scene of several massacres, a horticultural show was recently held. Life, it seemed, was back to normal. The Multiple Vote. But the shadow of the Mau Mau panga has left Kenya...