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8/12/1953 - Detribalized African by David E. Reed

INSTITUTE OF CURRENT VORLD AFFAIRS DER Barclays Bank Detribalized African Queensway Nalrobi Kenya August Mr Walter S Rosers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York New Yok Dear Mr Roers Joshua Thom detribalized Africn I asked attitude towrd comin Europeans country You showed civillztlon Sir chance practice You tught money Joshua schooling Western standards Hs lingual In addition tribal dialect soeaks Swahill Enslish His English fairly tangled sentence Most education mission schools The missionaries played makin6 They Biblical which prefers African But Europeans place world exchange Today Joshua Thomas rootless culturally He rejected reserves Nairobi He strives intensely toward world Europeans althoush kuows color impassable He bitter sometimes lonely always He forefathers clings Christianity although dislikes missionaries brought relision He trade other clerk other educated Africans looks government employment He European would similar Job DER He opoosed Mau Mau quickly believes valid grievances He distrusts fears Ehropeans admires wants accepted He lacks cleverness Sophistication Europeans He appears sincere words unchecked torrents sometimes seems painfully conscious It several talks Joshua before relaxed somewhat He never American before Canadian He vague America first questions How treat American Africas Joshua years Unlike Africans I husky He rather handsome Western standards His brown blackish He Faraoli reserve North Nyanza western Kenya Lake Victoria He eIsht children three girls Three brothers older His father shamba consisted tlree acres The onlywhite Joshua contact weremssionaries occasionally colonial officials settlers The first missionaries arrived there Joshua father adult Joshua knowJust As other tribes reckon their their group terms years When missionaries first Joshua eople feared missionaries tricks mission They leave sugar beets other things alon6 people would attracted mission station pickin In missionaries would Our srandfathers missionaries think missionaries Our forefathers tausht Christianity My father still Christian Amon5 tribes there almost pathetic belief education automatically unlock doors white world Joshua father three shamba_ school Joshua education seven years Joshua education began years He enrolled school operated American Qukers whose missionaries Christianized family He stayed there years overnment primary boardin school His small European standards Africans schools Joshua helped place Jobs school grounds after class After three years overnment school principal Joshua partial scholarship another mission school operated Church Fssion Society England He stayed there years until years I leave school happy Joshua recalled The strie because There enough We talked principal about bother I eausing trouble I school I When called I Nairobl workir fathor could afford education That Joshua became policeman assigned clerical He earned shillings month When police department years later promotion earnin shillings month Was enough I asked It enough shirt Joshua He government Job payln East African shillings month about He stayed there seven years became department charge Africans seven Asians earning month A European would He different public Job money earns month third which sends family reserve The family The father divided shamb_a_ From years overwork become unproductive DER One recently share Nairobl Jobless Ill He hosoital serious stomach ailment I Faow become Joshua Another earns shillings month tailor Eldoret A European tailor makes money African tailor nothing Joshua The other parents unmarried daughter continue livin shamba dwindled acres Joshu finds difficult month He dresses European clothing usually corduroy Jacket sports shirt regular shirt slacks shoes these cheapest threadbare His living quarters provided government consist connecting circular diameter They throughout Kenya walls concrete extending shoulder level topped peaked thatch which Joshua himself One sleeping other parlor dining A neighbor cooks Joshua meals keeps Clean Joshua shilllns month There small table parlor dinir along which serve couches overstuffed chair several wooden chairs bookcase The bookcase contains about volumes cheap novels travel books school texts items Teach Yourself Better English Atop bookcase copies East Afria Stand Nairobi daily newspaper copies illustrated Enlishmagazines Joshua reads light kerosene Alon circular dozen water color paintings Joshua I consider first The largest painting Adam Eve tropical garden serpent coiled around Adam Eve Africans The other paintings scenes reserve landscapes native villages carryin water warriors hunting people workin their hambas Joshua introduced paintin school since He formal lessons He would paint cannot afford The water colors stray pieces cardboard cheap drawin paper Joshua unmarried Like Africans wants children especially He would prefer educated would difficult support month An educated would submit becomin economical beast burden uneducated African Joshua saved nearly wonders whether should ahead marry anyway usin8 money bride price whether should little fortune white magic I think anywhere without education Joshua He would study Do American Africans school United States Sir Joshua lonely He lives outskirts Nairobi He companionship among neishbors They laborers I enjoy talkin about things laborers about They cannot write nothln You wouldn enjoy talkin laborers would Sir He frequently Nairobi talks friends tribes himself enjoy talkin8 laborers While continues believe Christianity Friends church bitter about missionaries He however Joined African Independent churches Joshua reluctant discuss reasons rejecting Europeans Christianity finally several includin feels Europeans practice relision teach Africans He feels instead techin people modern government missionaries helped impose domination My people realize missionaries British 8overnment Joshua The missionaries front government When settlers speak languase missionaries The missionary tells This build In Kikuyu Reserve 8iven helpin8 missienarles The missionaries should Africans Joshua bitter about chared mission schools although realizes expenses somehow Now mission schools overnment schools Some mission schools little charge Some build schools still charge money Even little totos maybe shillings there terms The fathers money totos education What sbout future No white leave Kenya It chase Erlishen I think standard where ourselves If cooperated taught would But Eurooeans teachln Africans thins Enlishmen spirit teaching There people But makes difference If slrin I slttin teach still I sinin Most thins Africans taught They Just imitatln If African kropean something tries imitate Right thoush pains Enllshmen stupid If Englishman should seated would shout Get But sittin wouldn anythln I shouts I think I understand becsuse thinks I anything myseIf There sorts difficulties betterin relations Joshua little story lllustrat An African wanted invite European because Aropean But African calabashes drinkin could afford three shillings ashamed calabashes invite aropean European thought African unfriendly What think ofuMau They grounds silly because about Ranas The Enslishman bombs while their Ranas But people think anyway police think nothin8 Mau Mau The European farmer instance plenty money He firewood wants But African forest firewood The police there shoot But I Mau should Just appealed British overnment If British evernment doesn listen I think U N would Don think U N would Of course British government would listened around Kikuyu should firzt Mau Mau never extirpated until Kikuyu grievances settled Joshua These rievances huner Some peoole How shillings month Idle white highlands parceled landless Africans Some those settlers thous acres wages raised substantially peace Kenya again Even thlns pretend better Mau there feeling Kikuyu start A cleaver sword Africans numerous household tasks The security forces declared ountaln forests Mau stron6holds prohibited zones Forest squatters removed Africans sight these areas The security forces defend policy pointin Mauu wears uniform there tellln distance whether African terrorist uumust exterminated military Operations cannot carried loyal Africans terrorists could mingle ambushes allowed fihtin areas DER2 What happen Africans start sinin I asked Joshua If federating these territories African chance rulir himself The trouble The Englishmen comin6 every takir every responsible Job I Africans But Even En6lishmen Africans progress still carry If educated children progress No resard Indians large number skilled skilled Jobs Jobs otherwise might Africans African advancement The Indians anythir gainst anything He about Indians never really doesn about I Joshua other I getting there I thought mi6ht When I Sir Egyptlans doing I paper couple Sincerely Received New York 8117153