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Mau Mau Mau Mau
Mau Mau , secret insurgent organization in Kenya , comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople. They were bound by oath to force the expulsion of white settlers from Kenya. In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against the Europeans, especially in the "white highlands," claimed as Kikuyu lands. The... Read more
Kikuyu Kikuyu
Kikuyu , Bantu-speaking people, numbering about 6 million, forming the largest tribal group in Kenya. The Kikuyu live in the highlands NE of Nairobi. Before the British conquest they were the most influential people in the country. During the 1950s, under the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta , the... Read more
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Mount Kenya Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya or Mount Kirinyaga, extinct volcano, central Kenya, just south of the equator. Its highest peak, Batian, reaches 17,058 ft (5,199 m), making Mt. Kenya the highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro. In the heart of Kikuyu country, Mt. Kenya was a focal point during the Mau Mau ... Read more
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey , 1903-72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b. Kabete, Kenya; father of Richard Leakey . His fossil discoveries in E Africa demonstrated that humans were far older than had previously been suspected. Leakey, the son of missionary parents, grew up... Read more
Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.), 1931-, American journalist and novelist, b. Richmond, Va. Wolfe first gained fame for his studies of contemporary American culture in a style known as New Journalism, which combined personal impressions and opinions, reconstructed dialogue, slang, and... Read more
Hawaii (state) Hawaii (state)
Hawaii , 50th state of the United States, comprising a group of eight major islands and numerous islets in the central Pacific Ocean, c.2,100 mi (3,380 km) SW of San Francisco. Facts and Figures Area, 6,450 sq mi (16,706 sq km). Pop. (2000) 1,211,537, a 9.3% increase since the 1990 census. ... Read more
Western Samoa Western Samoa
WESTERN SAMOA [Western Samoa] officially Independent State of Western Samoa, constitutional monarchy (1995 est. pop. 209,000), South Pacific, comprising the western half of the Samoa island chain. There are nine major islands: Upolu , Savai'i , Apolima, Manono, Fanuatapu, Namua, Nuutele, Nuula,... Read more
Windrush Windrush
Windrush a former troopship, the ‘Empire Windrush’, which in 1948 brought the first organized party of Caribbean immigrants, many of whom were former British servicemen, to Britain; the term Windrush generation is now used allusively to refer to this group and the period of their... Read more
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