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IN DARKEST KENYA
THE
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FEARS
THAT HALT AFRICA
A reporter just back from Kenya reveals what lies behind the attitudes and prejudices he found there
of
By John Redfern
Africa.
member
tea-parties Al which hand- plcked guests Bay polite things.
to
know
each other.
At
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
the 52nd
HE said to her hus- before France became the 60th band: "If the child State, Italy the 51st, Germany is spoiled why is it They just announced it over the and Spain the 53rd. always my fault?"
radio. A voice said, - Howdy. 50.000,000 noo Americana. Wal- come to the American way of life..This programme comes to you by courtesy of Crispy Crunchy Com Flakes, the only red-blooded Americans,** breakfast food for 100 perempt
Ho sald: "Because if i smack him you call me a Victorian re- actionary. So I don't smuck him enough."
She said: "I won't have him smacked by you or anybody also."
He said: "If somebody doesn't smack him he'll spend most of
life in prison."
She said: "It wasn't smocking that kept your father out of prison. It was sheer luck."
"But how did it happen?" naked the children.
"They started by buying up British newspapers,” sold the old mon. "When Lord Beaver- brook died.
"Who?" asked the children. He said: "If your father had "You wouldn't know anything been smacked more often he about him," said the old man. wouldn't be an idle loafer spong."He was soon forgotten Bub
ing en hit son-in-law."
She said: "You leave
my
father out of this."
are
liko
He said: "Children dogs. They mistake kindness for weaker.ess.”
She said: WIL you want to bring up your child like a dog why don't you buy him keunel?"
4
Ho said: "k I bought kennel I'd stay in it myself to get a litle peace."
the Americans bought his neww-- papers and a controlling inter- nst in most of the others. They alled the papers with pro- paganda for union with America and a lot of chlidish, old- fashioned cartoons about Ungle Sam and John Bull."
"What happened then?" ask- ed the children.
"I'm not quite sure excopt that they got control of the Bank of a England and all means of trans- part, communications, and pub- itelty, including British films. Sponsored programmes gave them control of broadcasting and television.”
She said: "No, you wouldn't. You'd chain your son up in it. And
me too, You're a throw back to the apes."
He said: "I wouldn't talk about apes if I were you. Not with a family album like yours?? She said: "You had enough SCTLIC to burn your family album."
He mid: "If you had burned yours I wouldn't have that your grandfather gorilla."
known
She said: "Before yours was urned it must have looked like
said:
trying ta
ER car had broken down a few yarda from her Nairobi office, and the young Englishwoman did the usual thing. Her voice clanged like a copper gong: "Boy! Come and push this car!"
number One of a Africans at the office en- trance came forward. First, he carefully removed his hat, and that disclosed his grizzled hair. Then, gently,
True, deflelencies under both cone tear the whole Kikuyu the roof stays on. tribe to pieces hondings no doubt helped to
Kikuyu he
language. said, "Memsaab i
form the seedbed for Mau Mau. servants, understanding the (Madam!) I am not a boy. But now, when the hard-pressed drift, had to take it. have a grown-up family. I 30,000 Europeans might have The men who have most lo am old enough to be your turned away with an angry do with the Africans are the
After that father."
liberal shrug of the shoulders, district commissionETS and they decline to do so.
their staffs. pushed the car.
Away from the Government Now, the young English level, individuals in Kenya and woman was furious. She other African had been in Kenya for often concerned for the welfare of the African. I know dozens some time. "Boy" is the cus-
of tough-looking tomary word for a walter, would be out of their beds in
settlers whd been no attack on the life of
es gallery," said: "Better than a book But the two races must get af jungle snaps." tube view of the British in African
of Kenya's present they are close together
Sho
"If you don't stop Executive Council the top layer but strangers, just like myself insulting my relations I shall do of the Legislature.
and the British Railways driver comething desperate." To avald
He said: "Go climb a tree like We And that in a relatively
difficulties in the who, now I am back in England, poor country, burdened by the hotels of Nairobi, we were asked brings me to town every day.
our granddaddy.""
She sold: "You're cost of a campaign running to to pack sandwiches and meet at woodland about £200,000 a month, there the Arboretum,
They must reach the point drive me mad."
"I" increasing
Ho said: attention
by space on the fringe of Natrobi. where a white man can call an
never interfere is Government
How housing and to
with the course of nature," many times have I African a so-and-so fool, and for the five winced in a British home in the African
it wage incentives
She said: "I can see can speak in like
all and a quarter million Africans. East Africa while listening to fashion to the European, and now. You want to got rid
me. You want to break my spirit. And the boy's spirit. You're
he
territories
The
in violent
are
No Attack
a servant, the man in the a flash to drive a sick servant road. "Wapi boi? (Where's to hospital many miles away. the boy?)"she had heard
S far as I know, there has
throughout the long of the Mau Mau
It is the code of the settler. Africans after the
a D.C. horrors business.
Yet
the words hollered every He looks day of her Kenyan and their wives and children.
life.
That African was im- pudent and ungrateful.
Unimpressed
Well, yes.
Africans remain The British YET many
unimpressed by our efforts on have introduced the rule of their behalf, and not only those their law, the healing hands Africans exposed to political of nurse and doctor, the catch cries. chance of education-to the
One reason is that to the good primitive African In the things we have taken into Africo bush, to the town Afri- we have added an extraordinary can in the crowded "loen- lack of imagination. tion."
Sometimes this shows (13 F defect in manners.
Example?
During many
months in East Africa I used to
put a dot in my diary to mark
New Dark
Age
ofte
the days when someone said-
in the hearing,
A Challenge
DON'T
needed ON'T think all the
adjustments are on our side. The African is not always fair. He often carries a chip on his shoulder. Perhaps we put it
there.
Ho frequently has false idens about himself. He is given bit of paper from some slinky college, and he correspondence thinks his future is guaranteed. He is inclined to take any
another Mr Murdstone bullying David Copperfield and
His mother."
He said: "Who broke the clock
tho and the mirror on
wali climbed on
of the Who
top plano to fill it with sand?"
She said: "The boy did, be- smacked him. It's
cause
you
his revenge on society."
He said: "The boy did it be- often
cause he's not smacked enough and because his great- on grandfather, the maternal side, was a gorilla."
adverse comment os
as caused by Forward Glance
his skin-colour-a useful way of the DC's - judges, shelving self-criticism. coroners, and advisers are But he is ཝ cheerful chap, fairly easy targets. It seems as although often he has little to though the craziest Mau Mau be cheerful about. His heart is thug sees that the D.C. means warm, his loyalties are strong. something to the African With our care for Africa, his population,
stake in it, our stalce too, we Of course, the African will must accept the challenge and
this man as not be presuaded that we are treat
a human partners merely by nervous little being all the time.
T
VENICE
HE first thing I noticed
TELL us how Britain. Der came the 49th State
of
the United States of America," the children of the year 2000 asked the old man in the corner. "When did it happen?"
"I think it was about 1965" said the old man. "It was just
"Dida't the British fight back?" asked the children,
"They were not in a pori- tion to fight,” said the old man. "After the recond world wer they had allowed American ad- generals to com- mirals and mand British forces, They had thousands of already allowed American airmen to land with- out opposition."
"What for?" asked the children.
"To bomb the Russians,” said the old man. "So they already had control of the best British airfields. We were an occupied country."
"Couldn't wo have taken the airfields back?”
"Most of our troops were abrosd and the Americans were armed with atom bombs. They could have blown us all to bits in a couple of hours."
"Did they take over the other countries just as easily??
"Yes," said the old man, "ex- cept that the French refused to cat Crispy Crunchles Coca Cola."
or drink
"What about Russla?”
"The Russians became frighten- ed k
the
Chinese army, gave the Americans air bases in Siberia and became the 54th State.
Where do we go from here?” asked the children.
"Straight into the biggest war of the lot," said the old man. "As all other white races have become Americans the-world is now lined up in two opposing groups-White Versus Yellow and Black."
"So being the 49th State hasn't done us much good?”
"Not much," said the old man, "except that we can't lose any more international sporting events because we're all Ameri- cans."
[World Copyright.]
IS FALLING DOWN
By JOHN WREN
on
are wondering whether
they
when I arrived in Venice was that there
of an are now traffic lights IF we withdrew, then be
African servant knowing some the Grand Canal. The 20th would escape next time. yond question some of our English: know, 50 years ago Century,
in fact, is African Colonies
Then there are the motor- and pro- these chaps were hanging by breathing down the neck of boats. Every year the motor tectorates would switch thoir talis from the back to bad, bad things. You would be surprised to see the world's one city nble boat taxis increase, the number of black, aesthetic gondolas de- Tribe against tribe. Cattle what a rash broke out in my still to live in ita happy grease. Not only do the motor-
diary, I heard that sort of past.. A new remark
boats snatch the gondollers" atealing. Feuds.
several timea every
trade, swamp their craft, but Dark Age in the Dark Con- weeke
By this I mean that the the continual muck of tho tinent.
How cffensive is this manner
18 gondola
still the boat's wash is undermining the launt at the recent Of course we must stay primitiveness of the people!
of the ages-old, traditional-overyday trans- foundations
canal-sido palaces. in Africa. Outside the I should have liked to fire the port in this city of canals, fanatical hugs of Mau Mau high oficial of the Colonial aven If the opera-singing Venice is, In fact, falling there are many Africans Development
Corporation who gondollers must pause for down and many of the city's talked who would say
to
about "these
finest buildings are reeling over to baboons."
Tho C.D.C. is out the red traffic light.
the canals of an angle nearing that.
to improve the standard of living "We shall always want of the Africans. Is that the
that of the famed leaning tower the Europeans, but on way to go about It?
of Pisa, опе
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painstakingly woven by hand sinco Renaissance times. I was handed a tablecloth. I looked Today there are only 350 at the price tag-£8,000! It had gondollers left, Licences are taken twelve girls two years to passed from father to son, and would have made an
In the good old days it ideal many sons prefer work in near- by factories. A new gondola wedding present. Today, again. costa about £400,' and lasts teri
Europear. royalty and American years. Each winter it must be millionaires are missing. Only the South Americana, have the repaired and painted.
money, houses and survants to mom the fittin From
cafe I looked use luxury lace. { In on the luxury hotels on the Lido Venice's millionaires playground island, I found that these hotels were feeling the changing times. The
no long
Worse still the lace chief told me, the French are making and difficult to distinguish Ince by machinery which "even
from our own work which has
baked beach in norrllilos taken years to make by hanil."
Fish: Márkét-
ionable for ex-king, atres und
movie
start for Copri and the French Riviera", have taken the trade. To combat this Venice is still the city
the shrewd hotallers are angi- without a single motor car.
ing for the German trade,
and
Tinally, I went down to the Only once in its history has
newly-rich German Industrial fish market, will Its terupting. Ists who have made quick display of a car appeared in its streeta,
lobsters, crabs, Discrimination when the liberating Allies
post-war fortunes. · are-flocking....
"prawna, shrimps and the more to Venice,
unusual fish such as squids and offloaded jeeps from land- Mark's
So much so that the fair city
Everywhere...are "signE
pocket-sized octopus. Hare at sentence is a' clue to a THEN there is colour dising craft in St
still is
is urgently appealing for funds crimination--a
German. The restaurant which Christmas time hundrade of live vast, com-Square. It failure among triumphs.
tho from Rome to strengthen
sen cols are put into huge, tanker of water, for eels. (not turkey). Triumphs? We have plicated, prickly business, 1 leisurely-going city without foundations of many threatened sised to adverdham and
operation, officially or otherwise,
palaces. Meanwhile the city's "gs" and "afternoon tea" now in the traditional Christma), Eve taken into Africa great varies very much in the diner single-stomach ulcer."
castrio which must contributo advertise, in German; Frank- dish with Venetians., 95HAND MA furter sumigas and sauerkraut. administrative skills and ent territories.
75 percent of its gambling pro nourished them, with a genuine desire to improve crimination experienated in over the canals from at Venice din falling down
territories know best, that dis-supersonle bang as NATO dots to the municipality saving the ways and estate of the the minds of people in Briisin miser-long- airstrip, 18 miles. Cay 20 EZEREIN African.
A (where it is not unknown)
north, 836 and larger) A Do not, however foel foo Take Kenya. Only a frac Don't believe them have bomber would use this field sorry for the gondollers, Their average your round wage la one tion of Africa. But that over yet met an African who if the event of war,
was not hurt or ashamed, by
pound & day!! (good wages for soothing land with the somely experience of colour.
Venice. scaped, Italy) whil: winute: 16 largely a acids of straini and the pof discrimination,gned
bugh it was: killi
nons of terror, seeping
con
Some white men say that the But again there is the
trast. The contrast of the flis (Bald to be £800,000 a year)
SEARCH Yumed, mysit
I
from the: Ma Mau VMES Erolled 18 join, tworz
` surrounded' by the", "glories of
used the Lido's biggest hotel, the days when Venite an During the war, the Germans would seem thed that still
the Excelsior, to repair" Luft- Independent, empire dairelching, waffe ongines (and escape to the Dardanelies, the Tena- Allied bombing)Today, in the lane are trying hard to live the same, completely rongvated
alde théid 14th Century (äkeit: hotels Fritz; If fated", at RVEZDAR pounds anday quest15spo
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