Word: kikuyus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which...
...managed to squeak through to victory in a hotly contested campaign in Nairobi, one African candidate was raising his voice against the new constitution which made his election possible. He is 28-year-old Tom Mboya, a member of the Luo tribe, which is second in numbers to the Kikuyus. "I look at him," says one worried Kenyan, "and I ask myself how would I like to face him 20 years from now, when he has 20 more years of legislative experience behind...
...settlers plan to evict all Kikuyus from a five-mile-wide buffer zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
...eviction is underway. Thousands of Kikuyus are being bundled into boxcars and shipped to overcrowded reserves, even sitting on car roofs with arms linked so as not to fall off. One transit camp is a barbed-wire enclosure on Nakuru racecourse, where evicted Kukes are huddled together in the horses' stalls. Kenya's jails are already overflowing with an estimated 20,000 Kukes...
Queen's Counsel. The Kenya government relies on British regulars, Kenya home guards and Wandorobe savages (who get ?10 per Mau Mau head) to stamp out the terror. So far 13,000 Kikuyus have been rounded up as Mau Mau suspects; several dozen have been killed and four hanged. Yet few white settlers believe the Mau Mau can be crushed until Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the bearded Kikuyu whom the government accuses of masterminding the terrorists, is safely locked away...