Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for his superb and little-remembered tragic farce about Abyssinia, Black Mischief. It also evokes headline-real Bechuanaland, which recently welcomed back chastened Chief Seretse Khama after his six-year exile in London, imposed when Seretse married a white London typist. And finally, it resembles Kenya and its Mau Mau...
Commenting on the Mau Mau incidents in Kenya, Mboya said, "By the use of military power, we have suppressed the militant wing of revolt, but we have done nothing to eliminate the conditions of the present crisis...
...years that followed, and his firm voice never lost its strength. An ardent believer in the future of Kenya, he became one of the colony's richest men, but he never ceased to flay those with whom he disagreed. His suggested solution in the early days of Mau Mau terrorism was characteristically simple: "Catch a hundred of these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government's later (1953) building of a gallows...
...first time in their lives, Capricorn's delegates sat in free and equal congress last week to consider their common problems. Sir William Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas, and Lady Murphy sat side by side with three Kikuyu tribesmen who had defied Mau Mau threats of assassination to travel from Kenya. Peppery little Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton came in from Natal, mingled with white doctors and teachers and black farmers. At night, over beer and sandwiches, everyone lounged together and talked, while tall, lanky David Stirling strolled about, arguing, urging, explaining...
Safari (Warwick; Columbia) had the interesting idea of shooting 30,000 feet of film in Kenya and then hiring a writer to think up a plot. What results is an African western with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor Mature standing knee-deep in corpses just as the soldiers come charging to the rescue. Along the way are the usual scenes of trumpeting elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most...