East Africa and Rhodesia 1955 no. 1587

Item Overview

Title

East Africa and Rhodesia 1955 no. 1587

Uniform title

East Africa and Rhodesia

Date Created

March 10, 1955

Date

1955-03-10

Place of Origin

Nairobi (Kenya)

Publisher

East Africa Ltd.

Language

English

Collection

McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Program

Modern Endangered Archives Program

Notes

Description

ENGLISH: East Africa and Rhodesia newspaper issue 1587 of March 10, 1955 Communist speakers in Great Britain are using the amnesty offer made to the Mau Mau gangsters(whom they call nationalists) to spread the worst kind of misrepresentations about Kenya.The local Communist a seemingly educated man, put the following three questions: one, ''is the speaker aware that 15, 00 innocent and unarmed Kikuyu patriots have been shot down by European troops in Kenya?'', two , ''is the speaker aware that thousands of Kikuyu have been condemned to death merely for taking that Mau Mau oath?'' and three, ''is the speaker aware that these alleged Mau Mau oaths are a European invention for the purpose of discrediting the nationalist patriotism of the Kikuyu?''

Physical Description

Extent

40 pages

Dimensions

Height 30.8 cm, Width 21.5 cm, Depth 0.4 cm

Medium

Ink on paper

Keywords

Genre

newspapers

Subject Geographic

Kenya
United States
Rhodesia
Tanganyika
Nairobi (Kenya)
UK
Khartoum (Sudan)
Zanzibar
Nyasaland

Resource type

text

Subjects

Communities and tribes
Industries
Accounting and finance
Commerce
Government
Utilities
Land use
Deaths
Politics and government
Colonialism
Materials and products
Education