Word: kikuyu
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...Your picture shows Mr. Kenyatta with Kikuyu dancers and one gentleman who is not a Kenyan at all. At Mr. Kenyatta's side, with a short grey beard, stands Orlando Martins, a distinguished Nigerian actor who is here with me filming Max Catto's Mister Moses...
...Outlook. Painstakingly, Kenyatta pleads with his people to accept Harambee, a Swahili word meaning "pull together." He tells Africans that they must concede full partnership to whites and Asians, and tells his own dominant Kikuyu tribe that they must work amiably with other tribes. The opposition KADU Party, which elected only 31 of the 130-member House of Representatives, is falling apart as more and more of its own Representatives climb on the Kenyatta bandwagon, lured by government jobs and patronage. As a result, Kenya will probably become a typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent...
...have a common history, culture and customs which make our unity both logical and natural," declared Kenyatta, thereby seeming to refute old charges that he was parochially interested only in pushing the fortunes of his Kikuyu tribe, the most numerous in Kenya. "We reject tribalism, racialism or inward-looking policies." The East African Federation, which may be launched when Kenya gains full independence, probably later this year, could eventually become a nation of 25 million people, the third largest in Africa. There is no clear notion yet as to who will run the federation or how tight it will...
Accordingly, the government is now also using a far milder de-oathing rite. In fact, it often is more like a civil;,service exam than something out of The'-Golden Bough. Along with a Kikuyu district officer, the de-oathing teams comprise several recorders, who write down confessions, and a court of five tribal elders. Those who come forward to renounce the L.F.A. are asked eleven questions ("When did you take the oath?" "Who are the leaders?"), then are fined an average of 5 or 10 shillings by the elders...
Though some key L.F.A. officers remain on the loose, the teams draw big crowds throughout the Rift Valley, where Mau Mau was born. This month, 2,000 Kikuyu have been de-oathed. Said one European official hopefully: "I think we've caught this one in time." But there were those who wondered whether the de-oathing would take. "Other tribes play football on Saturday afternoons," said one skeptical white magistrate, "but the Kikuyu take oaths...