Word: kikuyu
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...dense papyrus swamp 50 miles from Nairobi last week, the Mau Mau were making what the British hoped was their last stand. Sixty terrorists were trapped, including several members of the hierarchy which has directed the four-year war against their fellow Kikuyu tribesmen and their white employers. With an estimated 3,000 Mau Mau at large in scattered groups, the British felt that "the emergency" was almost ended...
...Highlands, while the colony's 5,300,000 Africans are crowded into 52,000 sq. mi. of less desirable farmlands down below, or scrabble for their living in the arid, underdeveloped "Crown Lands" -a euphemism for wilderness. For many years the million-strong Kikuyu tribe, less uneducated than most and peacefully inclined, talked hopefully of expanding their holdings into the White Highlands; instead, the white settlers told them to go expand into the Crown Lands, and vaguely talked of irrigation projects that would some day make the Crown Lands bloom. Frustrated, many of the Kikuyu farmers turned to other...
When the Mau Mau rebellion started, Blundell was made a member of the Kenya war cabinet. His view of Mau Mau: "We've forced the Kikuyu tribe to try to assimilate 2,000 years of civilization in 50. The result has been mental bewilderment, spiritual frustration. Mau Mau is a deliberate going back to primitive ways." Relatively speaking, Blundell is a progressive, which means, in Kenya, that he expects the white minority to go on running the government, but with a concern for and an assist from the Africans and Indians. "How can a small white oligarchy...
...result of mounting dissatisfaction, in Kenya and in Britain, over the conduct of the Mau Mau war. Despite periodic announcements that the guerrillas were on the run, 7,000 Mau Mau, armed with homemade guns and spears, are pinning down a division of British regulars and 28,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, Masai spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their Mau Mau sympathies antagonized many...
...death by Mau Mau six weeks ago. Leakey had been tortured, buried alive and left in a shallow grave to become the prey of hyenas and wild dogs. Oddly enough, his murder was regarded in Kenya as further evidence of the Mau Mau's declining fortunes. The captured Kikuyu witchwoman who led police to Leakey's grave admitted that he had been made a human sacrifice in the hopes that his death would bring renewed good luck...