Word: kikuyus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanted Your Head. In Kenya Crown Colony last week, whites in their remote farmsteads 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...
...whites is their failure to understand that the black Kikuyu tribesmen, who tend their crops, wash their dishes, nurse their babies and dig their graves when they die, are also equally fanatic land-lovers. The whites blandly reason: "If we're kind to the Kukes [short for Kikuyus], what more can they want? They've only been down from the trees for 50 years ..." One helpful farmer lined up his Kukes and told them to speak to me freely. The farmer is a good bwana, they said, but that isn't the point. The land was always...