Word: mau
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...settlers, the imminent prospect of control by the blacks was disturbing enough. Even more alarming was the fact that the chief black candidate sometimes seemed to be Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta himself. Though Kenyatta was still confined to a desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every black rally. Fiery Tom Mboya campaigned in a sports shirt emblazoned with Kenyatta's image. As if things were not tense enough, it was the peak of the dry season, when the air is hot, dusty...
...Macleod's dogged mind, the greater danger is not bruised white feelings but open black rebellion. Warned Kenneth Kaunda recently: continued white domination of Northern Rhodesia would bring "an explosion of a far-reaching nature" that would "by contrast make Kenya's Mau Mau seem a child's picnic...
...name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen cannot forget. It was, as described in her latest book, Shadows on the Grass (TIME, Jan. 6), a country where "the white pioneers lived in guileless harmony with the children of the land." Following a three-month stretch for contempt of court and two months...
...liners, as when he calls Man-Tan "instant Mau Mau," and sometimes he lapses into corn, but mainly he tells stories with a sharp point. He says that white people often wonder how colored people, who have such low-paying jobs, can afford to own Cadillacs. Well, first there is that $500-a-year saving on the country club, another $1,500 a year on the Florida vacation-and so on into the driver's seat of a Cadillac...
...Catholic. Later he took a master's in history and economics from Edinburgh University, returned to the bush to teach in a mission school. By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika's 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin and his country of origin are irrelevant to his rights and duties as a citizen." Last year Tanganyikans showed...