Word: maseru
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Last week the Colonial Office's arguments were inferentially bolstered when a black Basuto named John Makume, convicted of ritual murder, was hanged at Maseru, Basutoland, 3,000 miles from the scene of the Gold Coast mystery. John Makume was a Sunday bell-ringer in the local church, and his little gang of 16 men were "all educated and professed Christians." John, 75, had dispatched to the spirit world a 60-year-old shoemaker, had made "medicine" from the head, heart, lungs. In Basutoland such a medicine is believed to increase a chief's prowess in battle, boudoir...