Word: mau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEARDED young militants who staff the Brooklyn office of the Congress of Racial Equality call themselves CORE's "Mau Maus." Mau Mau, in ghettoese, has long been synonymous with riot, but that's not what the angry young advocates of black power have in mind. Explains one, "We want a social and economic Mau Mau." They will get it, at least in part...
There is more. A book called Mau Mau Detainee written by Josiah Mwangi Kariuki and published by Penguin, discusses the role MRA played in the Kenya detention camps...
...could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those who voted. For months, the south has been torn by a Mau Mau-like revolt among its 4,000,000 black tribesmen, who fear political domination by the 9,000,000 people of the mostly Arab and Moslem north...
Considering the daredevil way she operated, it came as no surprise. She once drove a Renault all the way from Argentina to Alaska, and the same idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...
...Mau Tsuh-doong...