Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!bbanerje From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Another Off the Wall Request Message-ID: <558@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 23:58:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sjuvax.558 Posted: Wed Oct 17 23:58:22 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 09:45:41 EDT References: <228@iham1.UUCP> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 33 >> names are today). Those books mention something called a Mau-Mau >> rebellion in that region in the early 1950s, how bloody it was and how >> the white residents of that region put it down rather violently. >> Evidently, the mood of the white residents was "There is no quarter >> asked, none given, and there are no prisoners taken." Books by Robert It was basically a tribal rebellion (as far as I am aware) which had it's basis in the desire of the Mau-Mau's to preserve their culture/ way of life (herder/gatherer) in the face of different cultural values. The Tribes involved were primarily the Zulu and the Masai (I may be wrong on this). >> Ruark relate some incidental stories about the Mau-Mau rebellion and >> say that there were "terrible" oaths taken by the natives when they >> joined the rebels. Pretty enticing stuff, eh? This again ( as far as I am aware ) is standard procedure for secret societies. The idea is two-fold. Firstly, by making the initiation rites "horrible", you cut down on the probability of being infiltrated. Secondly, the oaths taken by the initiates forms a sort of bond. Anyhow, what happened to the Mau-Maus ? Well, the only thing that I know is that one of their leaders, (Jomo Kenyatta) later became prime minister of his Country, and led it to freedom (Run the former sentence through swap to get correct chronological order). Regards, -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje P.S. Send Flames, I love mail.