Word: mau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United Africa has not emerged everywhere unscathed. Its profits in Kenya are still off from pre-Mau Mau days; its immense plantation operation in the Congo slipped $364,000 into the red last year (though its Congolese margarine and trading companies turned modest profits). In Guinea, United Africa's business was brought to a halt a year ago when Marxist-inclined President Sekou Toure set up a government trading agency. But Toure's recent concession that Guinea's economy has room for private companies, too, has sparked the company's hopes of resuming operations. "Size...
...Mboya, Kenya's young leader, who is attractive to the British Colonial Office because he lacks the Mau Mau taint, who heads Kenya's largest political party, but who apparently wants power now only to hand it over to Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British hate and fear...
When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in the wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta...
...with a band of silver, sported a gay red tie and a brand-new leather jacket. As he spoke, the old, grey-flecked spade beard bobbed emphatically: "I shall always be an African nationalist to the end . . . but I have never been a violent man ... I condemned and denounced (Mau Mau) oathing at many public meetings. I strongly disapprove...
...French Revolution, by Georges Pernoud and Sabine Flaissier. A spirited tabloid of the Terror culled from some 50,000 eyewitness accounts. It seems that the heirs of the French Enlightenment behaved at times like Mau Mau...