Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya Colony's leading political figure, big, bluff Michael Blundell, told Britain's Colonial Office in London last week that the Mau Mau have been losing ground ever since last April when Britain gave Kenya's blacks a bigger voice in local government. Loyal Kikuyu, bravely standing out against the terrorists in their tribe, have done much to turn the tide. Mau Mau are now surrendering to local authorities at the rate of 25 a week as opposed to a scanty two a week, six months ago. The 6,000-odd Mau Mau gangsters still at large...
...monarch, Kabaka Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, the 30-year-old local ruler whom the Baganda know as Sabasajja, the Best and Strongest of All Men. The disagreement started when Britain's Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton tactlessly suggested that peaceful Uganda be joined with Tanganyika and Mau Mau-ridden Kenya in a big East African Federation. The Kabaka, reflecting his people's outrage, began plumping instead for complete independence for his kingdom. The British reply was to pack him posthaste aboard a plane and, without giving him a chance even to say goodbye to his wife...
...Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya was two years old last week. In that bloody stretch of time the Mau Mau have killed or wounded 2,000 loyal Kikuyu natives, 900 African or European soldiers and 27 innocent European civilians. The expensive war against them (present cost: $2,800,000 a month) has resulted in the slaying of 6,741 Mau Mau and the capture...
...sympathetic to the problems and irritations besetting the Kikuyu than sixtyish Arundel Gray Leakey, a resident of Kenya for close to half a century. Like his better-known cousin, L.S.B. Leakey, the world's topmost authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either himself or his family, he never carried a gun as he made...
...their own dialect, he told them that he was unarmed, turned his back and strolled away. True to his expectations, they let him go unharmed. One evening last fortnight, however, as Leakey, his wife and his stepdaughter Diana Hartley were having supper at the farm, a band of 30 Mau Mau swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana emerged an hour later, her mother was lying dead on the lawn, cruelly...