Word: samburu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya and in Britain, over the conduct of the Mau Mau war. Despite periodic announcements that the guerrillas were on the run, 7,000 Mau Mau, armed with homemade guns and spears, are pinning down a division of British regulars and 28,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, Masai spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their Mau Mau sympathies antagonized many of the crustier of Kenya...
Colonel Scott, who told in his wartime bestseller, God Is My Co-Pilot, how he bagged Japanese planes now has spun an ingratiating yarn about how he bagged African big game. After dispatching the usual lion, leopard and elephant, Scott tracked Samburu, an almost legendary six-ton, ancient bull elephant that glides on noiseless, 28-inch footpads. Once, floundering out of a river, Hunter Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted...
Nobody can guess how long it may drag on, how far Mau Mauism may spread, how infectious its example might prove to be. What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya...