Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wildcat in the Bag. Black and white reaction was mixed. Governor Baring himself gives the plan, at best, a 50-50 chance; Kenya's white settlers, some of whom believe that the best way to fight the Mau Mau is to "hang the Kikuyu tribe in batches of 25," condemn it as "immoral" and "appeasement...
...forest north of Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...
During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...
Crosses of Blood. On their great rolling ranches where the big game roams, Kenya's white settlers have built 30-ft.-tall watchtowers with big searchlights to overlook their cattle camps and the Negro labor lines, which are enclosed with barbed wire. In their teeming reserves, terrified Kikuyu watch in awe while the Mau Mau drill in the open, black foreheads glistening with crosses painted in blood, hoarsely chanting to the gods: "Grant us power to drive out all whites...
...tangled vastness of the Aberdares. But of late, their Central Committee (whose members are unknown even to Mau Mau adherents) has been urging terrorist action in Nairobi itself, which in the first days of the emergency was relatively safe. In the capital's stinking slums, 100,000 Kikuyu (most of them not Mau Mau) sleep where they can. rocking their babies in sacks that are festooned around mud-hut walls. Fortnight ago, Mau Mau sent a message to these teeming slums: "Africans will stop using mzungu [white-owned] buses, and will stop smoking cigarettes." For emphasis, they strangled...