While Nigerians fought Nigerians and blamed it on the British, Africa's white settlers settled down with the problems of black, white and brown:
¶Moslem and Hindu leaders of Kenya's 120,000 Asians (most of them Indians) demanded the right, as Kenyans, to join in the fight against the terrorist Mau Mau. White settlers, who are outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Indians, 130 to 1 by the native Africans, protested that arms might make the Asians uppity, but the British Colonial Office, strapped for military manpower to cope with the Mau Mau, ordered 6,500 young Indians, between 18 and 23, to be...
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