Of the 77,000 Africans put behind barbed wire after the worst of the Mau Mau uprising seven years ago, about 900 are still in Kenya's four remaining detention camps. Many of them, still marked by the blood-oath fanaticism of the old days, are considered cases more in need of psychiatric care than punishment. But last week the father of the terror, bearded London-and Moscow-educated Jomo Kenyatta, the notorious "Burning Spear" feared by whites and Kikuyu tribesmen alike, was let out of jail. He had served his seven-year sentence, with 28 months off for good behavior.
Kenyatta was not yet a free...
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