Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounce and start jabbing their forefingers into them before they have had time to sign a hotel register. The points the settlers want to drive home, in loud and often hysterical voices, are mainly three: 1) the Kukes (their name for the big Kikuyu tribe which has spawned the Mau Mau terror fraternity) have only been "50 years down from the trees"; 2) the outside world loves the Kukes and hates the white settlers; 3) most visiting newspapermen are "bloody Bolshies...
...course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes...
With nice regard for the golf club's sensibilities, the cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a makeshift corrugated iron cell, they penned eight Mau Mau tribesmen, convicted of the murder of three officials: a Negro policeman, a Negro agricultural adviser and a Kikuyu headman...
...desert outpost of Kapenguria,the Queen's lawyers proceeded in slow, judicial fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino...
...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...