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of Memsa Fosset's three children:

Richard, two years old,

Mary, four and Victor, nine.

You knew them from birth.

You watched them play.

You ate and slept with them.

On the night of February 6,

you opened a window

to let Kimathi and his gang

into the house.

Juana Fosset was grabbed and

his throat slit on the big green table.

The mother and the children

ran toward the door.

Kimathi caught them

and cut them into pieces

right in the doorway in your presence.

The trial ofJomo Kanari

self-styled general

of the "Land Freedom Army"

escapee from the Voy prison

where he was spending 30 years

for theft, burglary, assault

and triple murder.

The inquiry determined that

the defendant organized more than

whereby domesticated

and wild animals were tortured,

and obscenities, together with

the crime of cannibalism, took place.

Besides, the accused,

along with his accomplices

severed the tendons

of more than 400 cattle

that then had to be destroyed

by the farmers.

Irrefutable evidence

of the defendant's guilt was provided

by one of the main victims of Kanari's

acts of vandalism, Mr. Wordsworth,

who along with his son

followed the accused's trail

for 72 days and 72 nights.

In Narok, Kanari was captured

and turned over to the Magadi police.

I consequently ask that

the accused be found guilty

and sentenced to the maximum penalty

provided for by the special law.

Land for the brave Mau Mau!

Amnesty for all Mau Mau!

Kenyatta proclaims them national heroes.

Reasoning:

For the triumph of Uhuru,

yearned for by the blacks

and denied by the whites,

they killed 27 whites

and 5000 blacks.

Kenyatta announces that in addition to

the undying gratitude of the nation

the Mau Mau will be granted the lands

and houses of the white colonists

in which they carried out their deeds.

The whites are itching to get out.

The windows of real estate agencies

are covered with sale offers.

Easy payment terms seem absurd

to anyone who doesn't know how

to savor the bitter irony.

Installments for up to 99 years.

Gloomy irony in the graphic composition,

desperate irony in the text of the ads.

Everything that belongs

to the white colonists is for sale.

Those with time turn to Indian merchants

to hold an auction in the garden

of everything accumulated by three

generations that cannot be carried away.

The Indians do a good business.

The new black bourgeoisie

spare no expense.

The ancient home is quickly emptied.

The family watches on the sidelines.

The seized houses, empty and silent,

await their new owners.

In the entire immense

East African territory

English colonial law

permitted whites to build a house

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