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Like dogs whipped for something they did not understand, 60 kinky-haired Wakamba tribesmen huddled on the floor of the Nairobi Railway Institute fortnight ago and gazed hopefully at the judge sitting behind a deal table on the stage. The Railway Institute can be used as a theatre. It has an orchestra pit, folding chairs and well-equipped fly gallery. Seldom had the professional hunters, coffee growers and tradesmen who crowded the back of the hall witnessed such a drama...
...beat her to death, which is the accepted punishment for witches in East Africa. For this the white man's government was demanding their death. Sixty Chicago policemen sentenced to death for shooting a racketeer could not have been more puzzled. Standing in an unblinking row the tribesmen heard the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya sentence them all to be hanged by the neck until dead. The Chief Justice understood Africa as well as the law. Privately he recommended them to the Governor's clemency...
Italy's troubles in North Africa started in 1911 when, to forestall the territorial hopes of Germany and France, she declared war on Turkey and seized the province of Tripoli. The Turks were easily dispatched but not so the Senussi tribesmen of the interior. During the War, when Italy had no men to spare for Africa, Senussi tribesmen drove the Italians back to the coast and practically reconquered the territory...
Chief Chetan Kinyan (Flyer Frank Monroe Hawks) of the Sioux tribe broadcast an appeal from tribesmen in South Dakota for clothing and blankets with which to face the winter...
...Clad in squaw's dress and beads, she had set out a few days earlier for a dance at Fort Apache. It was known that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know anything about the Schmerler case...