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Enlarged Wardrobes. Luckily for Nyerere, the government has an ally in the Masai chief, Edward Mbarnoti, who moves among the tribes' picture-postcard elders dressed in pants, white shirt and knitted pullover. Named "Great Speaker of the Masai" in 1959, Mbarnoti, who is in his 40s, has since urged his nomadic people to settle down and learn modern ways. The Masai seem resigned to ultimately becoming more Westernized. What will hurt them far more than having to enlarge their wardrobes is the government campaign to suppress their lion hunts and other deep cultural traditions. Last week...
...when the British put them to work tracking and killing Kikuyu terrorists. But in Tanganyika the Masai, disorganized and disfranchised, have been increasingly at the mercy of settlers encroaching on their grazing lands. Last week, as a long step toward doing something about it, the Masai installed Edward Boniface Mbarnoti as the first chief in history with federal powers over all tribesmen in Tanganyika...
...Choice. A more able-or less likely -spokesman for their interests the primitive, unruly Masai could hardly have found. Chosen from 200 candidates in a three-month search by the tribe's council of elders, Mbarnoti is a big (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), 28-year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent...
...Lecture. Under the cool slopes of Monduli Mountain last week Edward Mbarnoti, dressed in a ceremonial blue robe and a monkey-hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...
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