Gay/occult/intelligence world
Beard a place in Happy Valley, Kenya.
Occult pedovore activity locus
since after WW1
Beard was the tail end of that period of extraordinary license
Beard published a book of drawings by Isak Dineson's (pen name, real name Baroness Karen Blixen) cook, Kamante Gatura .
Kamante was Kikuyu tribe
Kikuyo were Mau Mau,
>midnight assemblies were said to be bestial rituals that mocked Christian rites and included the eating of human flesh and the drinking of blood. Then came the reports of native people being dragged from their beds at night, being beaten or maimed, and forced to swear oaths of initiation to a secret society. In each case, their assailants were said to be members of a secret society called the Mau-Mau.
http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Secret-Societies/The-Mau-Mau.html
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/mau-mau-uprising