WITCH DOCTORS IN KENYA
Sir, —The churches which permitted the cleansing of Africans froip the Mau Mau oath, a photograph of which appeared in “The Press” of January 17, had no real reason for reluctance, as the mumbo jumbo of the witch doctors differs little from the mumbo jumbo of churches, which tended lip service to Christ, but devoted service to Mammon. Such hypocrisy is, of course, not surprising to those who remember how, in the days of lush imperialism, the slow boat to China would be loaded below hatches with a full cargo of joss sticks and idols for the heathen to worship, while above decks would be a load of missionaries, sons and daughters of Birmingham industrialists, going out to convert the heathen. If the heathen in their black ingratitude ventured to protest about this benevolence a gunboat was promptly sent to show them. By gad, there was to be no nonsense. —Yours, etc., J. DENNEHY. January 20, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26944, 21 January 1953, Page 5
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