From the shaded terraces of the White Rhino Hotel, Kenya's white citizens look over their teacups at Nyeri golf course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes.
With nice regard for the golf club's sensibilities, the cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a...
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