Word: kikuyu
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Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...
...trees," did not ill-treat their labor. Now circumstances are making them as tough and ruthless as South Africans. They are men who have a lot to lose-including their lives. The Mau Mau hit first, now they are hitting back, without drawing fine distinctions between Kikuyu...
...mass movements of Kikuyu have naturally worsened a confusion that was already chronic. One official orders a thousand Kukes to be at a railroad siding at dawn for shipment in trucks to the reserves; but another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed...
...purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what they really want-except to kill and disembowel as many whites, chiefs, head men, and non-Mau Mau Kikuyu as possible...
Nobody can guess how long it may drag on, how far Mau Mauism may spread, how infectious its example might prove to be. What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya...