Word: kikuyu
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Last week, scenting danger to Suez, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton flew to Nairobi to see for himself how seriously the Mau Mau terror has jeopardized Kenya's security. He stalked through the ruins of Lari village, where the Mau Mau massacred 300-odd sleeping Kikuyu (TIME, April 6), and later reconnoitered Mau Mau strongholds from a light spotter plane. "We are being outmaneuvered and outflanked," a British officer told...
...white man's faith and values. But he has not. The Negro does feel bitter about his lot. But it is a bitterness greatly modified by hope, patience and humor. Negro intellectuals occasionally talk "African nationalism." But the majority of U.S. Negroes feel no more kinship to the Kikuyu of Kenya than to the man in the moon. They want to be, above all, Americans...
...kind of power. He was an orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying his bag of equipment, I served a kind of apprenticeship in the principles of the art." In 1929 he was sent to London to present Kikuyu grievances...
...apartment with Paul Robeson while the American Communist was making Sanders of the River. He married an English schoolteacher, Edna Grace Clarke, and had a son named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...
Last week, in the little red schoolhouse in Kapenguria, Jomo Kenyatta stood up for sentence, accused of having used his influence to foment unrest among the Kikuyu tribes, and of "managing the Mau Mau," the secret terrorist organization which has murdered 542 uncooperative Kikuyu and nine whites in the past year. Said Kenyatta, in a soft, purring voice: "We have not received justice . . . None of us would condone the mutilation of human beings. We have families...