Word: kikuyu
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...were jumpy and alert. The Mau Mau, striking from their jungle hideouts, were now concentrating mostly on loyal Kikuyus, members of the sturdy tribe on which the Mau Mau prey for their recruits. Chief Ireigi Karamba was shot in both legs and one arm; two African policemen and a Kikuyu schoolteacher were hacked to pieces. Three more tribesmen walked into the ward of a government hospital at Kiambu, sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead in his bed. A white farmer, returning home to find his house a shambles...
...forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece...
...snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn was slashed to death by Mau-Mau knifemen; in retribution, British troops rounded up every Kikuyu in a area surrounding the murder scene, drove off their cattle, sheep and goats and pulled down every native hut in sight...
...confiscating of crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative Council, gruffly suggested: "Hang the Mikuyu in batches of 25 in public, and send witnesses of the executions back to the Kikuyu reserves to spread the joyful...
Urgent Warning. Hemmed in between black barbarism and white Blimpery, moderates both in Kenya and in Britain worried that repression alone might drive the docile majority of the Kikuyu tribe into the hands of Mau Mau fanatics. In the House of Commons, bluff Jim Griffiths, the former Labor government's able Colonial Secretary, urgently warned: "We are in danger of converting what began as a struggle of all the decent, moderate, loyal people-Africans, Asians and Europeans-against the Mau Mau into a Black-White struggle...