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Four months after the murder of Kenya's brilliant young Economic Planning Minister Tom Mboya, prison officials in Nairobi announced tersely last week that Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, the Kikuyu tribesman convicted of the shooting, had been hanged secretly "in accordance with the law." The officials refused to disclose the date or details of the execution, but it was reported in Nairobi that Njoroge had died at 3 a.m. on Nov. 8. According to these reports, he went to his death without explaining what he had meant when he asked police after his arrest...
...Africa. Most of the protesters, including the women, were seized and jailed after a scuffle. Left temporarily unattended in the confusion were 400 of the tribe's youngest children, as well as all of its precious cattle. "Two cows were taken by hyenas last night," said a Tangwena tribesman, "and they will probably get the rest tonight. That means we will have nothing left...
...ancestor cult, a belief that the dead remained a part of the village and should help control its life, was discredited. Ritual dances and chants, ritual drinking, even the traditional and critical rites of passage-ceremonies marking birth, death, puberty, marriage-were treated as lapses into heathenism. Though the tribesman believed deeply in the evil that could be wrought by black magic, and felt he needed charms to resist it, Christianity derided his fears; Catholicism offered him little more in the way of protection than holy water and the Latin ritual. Yet the convert cherished the idea that a Christian...
...paper into a kind of revolutionary New York Times. Leary and friend then became "honest brokers," suggesting that Max sell the paper to the tribe- for $1,000 a week for 140 weeks, plus interest. The tribe had to debate that one. "Before, we were slaves," argued a tribesman. "If we take the offer, we'll have feudalism. Marx wrote that feudalism was a step up from slavery, so maybe we should take the offer...
...taking responsibility for acts of God or Ronald Reagan. There the matter lay until one morning last week when the tribe arrived at the office to discover that Max had made off with the subscription lists, some ad copy and an office machine. "An act of aggression," one angry tribesman cried...