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...though the bleak, barren slice of territory inside Kenya harbors 200,000 Somalis, Kenya's black nationalist leaders, led by ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, have always vowed that loss of their northeast corner would mean war with their own black Rendilles, who cover themselves with feathers; with their Turkanas, who wear little except mud hats; and with the Marilles, who wear only rifles. Thus, Britain's Sandys was bound to make enemies -and to risk violence-no matter what his decision about Kenya's frontier...
African Leadership. In Kenya, when ex-Mau Mau detainees returned to their villages after rehabilitation courses in British camps, they used their new knowledge of basic economics to take over rural trading posts from the long-hated Asians. Lately, Kenya's Indian merchants have contributed heavily to both big African political parties in hopes of buying protection after Kenya gets uhuru (freedom). Kenya's Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya is one of the few politicians to pledge that his Kenya African National Union will permit no one to be "victimized on grounds of race, color, tribe or religion...
...years after the bloody Mau Mau war against the whites, the British finally agreed last week to let their East African colony of Kenya take its first big step toward uhuru-freedom. Ending three weeks of talks in Nairobi with Kenya's tribal-backed political leaders, among them grey-bearded ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys emerged to make his announcement to the press. Elections will be held May 18-26 for the colony's first internal self-government. To be elected under a new, 300-page constitution: seven assemblies, plus...
...South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid as "the best solution" for South Africa's racial troubles...
...town that is rapidly burying the Eternal City, through the symbols of a dead past and a lifeless present. In despair she retreats into fantasies of flight from a world where money talks so loud that the heart cannot be heard. She greasepaints her body and makes like a Mau Mau; she goes for a plane ride and imagines she's a bird. But the paint washes off and the wings of fancy moult. The world is still there. She decides to make terms with it. But in gaining the world, will she lose her own soul...