Word: wakamba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police arrived, the Mau Mau had thrust a knife into his own chest, and was desperately trying to electrocute himself at the household fuse box. ¶In Wakamba territory, southeast of Nairobi, a gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third...
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...
With Bow & Arrow. Out of his original 80,000 feet, Queeny already has finished a second film, a two-reeler on the ancient music of a tribe in Uganda, near Lake Victoria. He plans a feature-length "fantasy" showing how the Wakamba tribe hunts elephants with bow & arrow, another two-reeler about a strange signaling bird that leads natives to caches of honey, and possibly still another feature on the safari itself. Beyond that, Queeny wants to ride his hobby on another expedition. "I don't know yet where it will be," he says. "It will be some place...