Genre: newspapers / Resource Type: text - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 292 of April 14, 1955 Mr.W.McLellan Wilson presented a memorandum explaining the situation of land occupation in the Kiambu area in 1900 when he first had personal knowledge of the district .He stated that in 1902 when he took up his present farm there were no Kikuyu nearer than three or four miles, and they were only the adventurous of the tribe.
Date:: April 14, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: 7th April 1955 issue 291 Weekly Comment newspaper A fair and impartial article upon a multi-racial school was a feature of contempolary.One assertion was, however both mystifying and disturbing , it was said that the average European in the colony is dead set against schools of a tri-racial character for" reasons not easily defined and essentially individualistic".
Date:: April 7, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 290 of March 31, 1955 The great deal of hypocritical talk being broadcast about the prosperous state of Kenya is difficult to avoid as the edifice of Kenya is becoming dangerously top heavy due to the overborrowing for a small country and expenditure continous to mount alarmingly.Most disturbing of all is the pressure being exercised from every quarter outside Africa to raise the standard of living of our millions to something like European level.We must not borrow anymore as it would be fatal for british Kenya , the budget will soon be upon us and will be scarcely be pleasant.
Date:: March 31, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 289 of March 24, 1955 White settlers in Kenya excited over the visit by General Sir Gerald Templer to finish off the mau mau war and ensure it never happens again however it is believed that the mau mau will fake "mass repentance" with the intention of fighting another day.
Date:: March 24, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 288 of March 17, 1955 Tom Mboya, the Secretary of the Kenya Federation of Registered Trade Unions, is a strong force and if the present insistence upon accelerating the pace towards multiracial government continues, we are likely to hear a lot more of Mboya in the near future and Mr. Humphrey Downes on behalf of the Department of Information told the country of the marvellous work being done in improving conditions in the Kikuyu Reserve, telling all tribes in East Africa that if they adopted a similar state of rebellion as Kikuyus have then they could expect to have similar good things.
Date:: March 17, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 287 of March 10, 1955 Threat to civil servants as they are prohibited from taking any part in the politics of Kenya and Mombasa strike alleged to be in line with the disbursements made to Civil Servants under the Lidbury Report coupled with the African cost of living
Date:: March 10, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 286 of March 3, 1955 How peace can be brought to Kenya and what price we are prepared to for it and Depressing week for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange following a quiet but somewhat uncertain start, London became a heavy seller of mining issues around mid-week and prices tumbled to their lowest levels for sometime
Date:: March 3, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 284 of February 17, 1955 The surrender fiasco over Government's abortive yellow pamphlet peace offer and The cost of living heavily and very unfairly weighted against the Europeans in the country
Date:: February 17, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 283 of February 10, 1955 Mau Mau killing livestock in rebelling the white government and The 1955 Mau Mau oath administered in the Rift Valley within 5 days of the Governor's historic speech at Nyeri, the new oath is taken at a bowing position over water, ash and sheep's eyes
Date:: February 10, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 282 of January 3, 1955 There are two wars raging in Kenya- the bloody war of the panga and bullet between the security forces and dwindling but increasingly desperate Mau Mau gangs, and bitter cold war of backbiting and recrimination between the Administration, the army and the police and Suicide Month being February where it is reported that in this season when people are likely to be found unexpectedly deceased under circumstances where foul play is not suspected.
Date:: February 3, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Browse items