Word: mau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Condemned to die eight months ago for shooting his African houseboy (who had stoned Poole's dogs), Poole became a near martyr in the eyes of many white Kenyans who recalled his services against the Mau Mau, and worried over what would happen to his aging parents and his two young children. In Nairobi, Poole's parents circulated petitions for clemency, addressed to British Governor Sir Patrick Renison, and collected more than 25,000 signatures, including many from Africans and Asians. Even African Nationalist Tom Mboya, though he would not sign himself, agreed not to influence his fellow...
Hardly a group or area is too small for Cuban attention: Jamaica police who seized the chief of the island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...
...government in Nairobi a month to release him or face civil disobedience. In rebuttal, the British argue that Kenyatta's release would put a bloody end to Colonial Office plans for Kenya's peaceful transition to independence, and point to the fact that already, fear of the Mau Mau is returning. Last week, following mounting reports of a revival of Mau Mau oathtaking, a Kikuyu chief loyal to the government was slain, and in the old Mau Mau fashion his son and teen-age daughter were smeared with his blood and forced to take the oath...
...time being, at least, the government's maneuver has failed. One by one, Kenya's African leaders denounced the Corfield report as a rehash of "European prejudices." In the week's prize example of nationalism gone berserk, Kenya Legislator S. A. Ayodo declared that when the Mau Mau movement is properly appraised, it will rank in history with the "French Revolution or the War of American Independence...
...Kenya, Protestant missionaries have just about won back the 39,000 (out of 40,000) Kikuyu and Embu Christians who deserted the churches during the Mau-Mau uprising in 1952. Identification of mission Christianity with "imperialism" is the church's biggest problem; two years ago, nine parishes of the Anglican diocese seceded and have appointed their own bishop. Twelve splinter churches have been formed, including the African Israel Church (whose members wear turbans), the African Interior Church, the Church of Christ in East Africa, and the African Brotherhood Church...