Word: nandi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years-ever since their abortive uprising against the British failed in 1905 - the 1,000-odd Nandi tribesmen of the Laikipia forest have been among the best behaved and most loyal natives in Kenya. As members of Britain's native army and the Kenya police, Nandi trackers and jungle fighters played a big part in suppressing the Mau Mau terrorists of the rival Kikuyu tribe, and the government even went so far as to urge those who stayed in the bush to arm themselves in a sort of informal native civil-defense corps. Happy as kids...
...rebellion was now at an end, but a British district officer, passing through Nandi territory recently, noted that the tribesmen were still making arrows. The witch doctor was arrested. As he was hauled to jail, mooning all the while over a withered setiot blossom (the symbol of virility among the Nandi), the remaining Nandi meekly and with some relief surrendered their stock of nearly 15,000 newly made bows and arrows. "We had to do as the witch doctor said," one explained apologetically, "otherwise he would have bewitched our children...
Kenya looks beautiful this week. The Nandi flame trees are ablaze with crimson against the clear blue sky, and in the sky glisten the snowy crests of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro. The giraffes gracefully nod their tall necks on the plains. Even the Aberdares, if you do not know what they shelter, could be called beautifully peaceful...