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Such "de-oathing" ceremonies are the British government's answer to the L.F.A., which since its first appearance 18 months ago has enrolled thousands of land-hungry Kikuyu tribesmen as members and threatened to plunge Kenya into a fresh round of Mau Mau-style terror. What gives the campaign a sense of urgency is the timetable of independence. Within a year Kenya may be on its own, and if the L.F.A.'s black terrorists make good their pledge to seize the white settlers' land, the country could find itself in the same shape the Congo...
...Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party in next year's elections...
...ruler when the colony becomes a nation, possibly within a year. So far, the electioneering has been fairly moderate, but trouble is threatened by something called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim cattle and terrorize the inhabitants. Once again, Rift Valley farmers strap on pistols before going out to the fields...
...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...