Last week a white farmer in Kenya's great Rift Valley found the body of a lost calf he had been searching for. Its front legs had been cut off and placed in its mouth; its belly had been ripped and its entrails festooned about its neck and head.
The carcass was grim warning of trouble ahead, for such butchery was the traditional sign of the Mau Mau. From the hills came reports of obscene Mau Mau oath-takings in Kikuyuland villages, and that the savage rituals were beginning again in the sleazy native "locations" of bustling Nairobi. Most whites on isolated...
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