Word: subukia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Years in 50. Blundell arrived in Kenya 19 years ago as a farm apprentice. He carved out a farm from the virgin bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers...
...acre farm at Subukia, near Nakuru, Yorkshire-born Michael Blundell, the burly, boyish-faced political leader of the white settlers, admitted there was something in the farmers' case. "I try to force the government to take bigger steps, provide more armed protection for isolated farms," he said, "but it takes weeks to get them to move." Blundell, as political leader of the dominant whites in a colony that is still run from London, is in a difficult position. His influence is considerable, but intangible; officially he has little power. The governor of Kenya may listen to Blundell...
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