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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fouler ritual was under obligation to pass along his recipe immediately to his less inventive colleagues. Since there were seven basic oaths, which could be taken over and over again, Mau Mau ceremonies thus became perpetual orgies. The result was that, when a Mau Mau convert did repent and vomit out his story to authorities, he sometimes ended by humbly asking to be taken out and shot. His sense of absolute degradation and "absolute sin," says the Corfield report, left him no choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Oath Takers | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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