Rehabilitation is weapon against Mau Mau: A strong weapon is Kenya's fight against terrorism is the rehabilitation program under which some 35,000 Mau Mau sympathizers have been sent to detention camps. Here, out of harm's way, they are learning to be useful citizens again instead of the blood-crazed terrorists many of them were in danger of becoming trhough the influence of the Mau Mau. Photo shows top: Mr. Benaiah Ohanga, recently elected to the Kenya Cabinet and the first African to hold Ministerial rank in Kenya under the new Kenya constitiution set up with the cooperation of the British Government visits the Malagat Works Camp in Kenya's Upper Rift Valley Province. Here minor Mau Mau followers are working on an irrigation scheme which will bring prosperity to the area. Bottom: Mr. Ohanga talks to a group of young Kikuya, all captured in the forest serving with terrorist gangs. Now they are in an industrial school in the Othaya Division of the Nyeri Reserve.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated 8--1954.
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