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Columnist-turned-Author Ruark (Horn of the Hunter, Grenadine Etching) is not likely to mind. Months before his bloody, big novel of Kenya's Mau Mau rising was due in bookstores. Hollywood paid a reported...
Except for a perfunctory romantic thread, the story is all about Mau Mau...
...white hero is Peter McKenzie, a hulking young safari leader who can stalk a kudu, sight a Mannlicher-Schoenauer and get shikkered on gin with the best big-game hunters. The sinister shadow on his life is his childhood playmate, the black Kimani. who becomes a Mau Mau at bestial oath-taking ceremonies in a mountain hideout and butchers Peter's family in sanguinary scenes of the kind that Author Ruark insists upon describing over and over again in detail...
...When the Mau Mau rebellion started, Blundell was made a member of the Kenya war cabinet. His view of Mau Mau: "We've forced the Kikuyu tribe to try to assimilate 2,000 years of civilization in 50. The result has been mental bewilderment, spiritual frustration. Mau Mau is a deliberate going back to primitive ways." Relatively speaking, Blundell is a progressive, which means, in Kenya, that he expects the white minority to go on running the government, but with a concern for and an assist from the Africans and Indians. "How can a small white oligarchy...
...join either party, preferring to keep their political opinions to themselves. Blundell counts on events to swing his way before Kenya's first two-party elections in 1956. "We have our hotheads," he says. "But the solid mass of people must have learned some lesson from the Mau Mau. They will be with us, when the time comes...