Word: mau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KENYA (Br. colony) Pop.: 7,000,000. Size: 224,960 sq. mi. Literacy: 50%. School attendance: 75%. College graduates: 400 plus. Christians: 15% ( + 15% nominal). LInder British, who expect to grant once Mau Mau-ridden colony freedom by 1964, Kenya is spending one-sixth of budget on education. Its Kamba witch doctors are famed...
...Something of Value, the hero is a superhuman, inhuman colonial who slaughters Mau Mau while they are sleeping, does not spare women or children$#151;this would be a sign of weakness. The novel ends on a note of hope, from Ruark's point of view. One of the big African politicians gets a good dressing down from a colonial and finally recognizes that he should have stayed satisfied with his primitive life in the bush. "We are fast becoming a people of half-white, half-smart, half-civilized spivs and scoundrels and loafers and whores," he confesses...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, the two Congos, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Mau ritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta...
...work by the farm shutdowns flock to Nairobi, where shantytowns are growing up on the city's fringes. Crime is soaring; auto thefts have doubled in the past year, and many a white farmer upcountry now packs a pistol everywhere he goes-just as he did in the Mau Mau days...
...worked his way up from ordinary constable, was drafted to run the secret service on the strength of his successes as a gangbusting police chief in a series of British cities, thereafter roamed the Commonwealth, often in disguise, investigating security capers that ranged from Communist meddling in the Mau Mau uprising to the defection of British scientists and diplomats; of leukemia; in Eastbourne, England...