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...upheld such barbaric Kikuyu rites as female circumcision,* which the missionaries and government officials had tried to stop. District officers stumbled onto fanatic ritual meetings in forest clearings. Later, word spread that tens of thousands of Kikuyu were taking fierce oaths of loyalty to a strange creed called Mau Mau, sealing the bond by drinking blood and waving cat corpses in the air as they sat facing the holy mountain...
...marauding Mau Mau gangs began darting out of the Aberdare hills to slaughter white farmers and hack their cattle to death, and the government declared a national emergency. It is generally agreed that Mboya played no part in the savage three-year revolt. But he had been an active member of Kenyatta's Kenya African Union...
When Kenyatta, accused of fostering Mau Mau, was sent to serve a seven-year prison term in the Northern Frontier...
...last October's general election, Macleod looked around for a more demanding job. The toughest one in sight was the Colonial Office, and Macleod boned up for it and got it. Within a month, he abolished the state of emergency in Kenya-seven years after the Mau Mau terror began. He toured East and Central Africa, talked with tribal chiefs, heads of government, and dozens of others, including his younger brother, Roderick, 39, a white settler in Kenya...
...antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain, one of the first Africans to win U.S. scholarships, educated in the '20s (Hampton Institute, Ohio Wesleyan, Columbia). A longtime friend of Mau Mau Leader Jomo Kenyatta, Peter Koinange is one of the two Africans who, even after the end of the emergency, are listed by the government of Kenya as being "subject to detention" if they ever return home...