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It was many, many years ago. Then women ruled the land of the Agikuyu. Men had no property, they were only there to serve the whims and needs of the women. Those were hard years. So they waited for women to go to war, they plotted a revolt, taking an oath of secrecy to keep them bound each to each in the common pursuit of freedom. They would sleep with all the women at once, for didn’t they know the heroines would return hungry for love and relaxation? Fate did the rest; women were pregnant; the takeover met with little resistance.

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soldier settlement scheme which after the first big war, left many black people without homes or land around Tigoni and other places.

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‘It is like our elders who always poured a little beer on the ground before they themselves drank,’ Wambui now said. ‘Why did they do that? It’s because they always remembered the spirits of those below.

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‘Angry that master is leaving you, eh?’ he taunted, standing safely at the open door. ‘Not even decent enough to say farewell? I once worked for a whiteman in Nairobi. When he left Kenya, he at least shot dead all his pets – cats and dogs. Couldn’t bear to leave them alive without a kindly helper.’

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tell you, I can see it all, in ten years these countries will be Russian satellites or worse still, part of the Chinese Empire—’

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Else we deserve to be slaves, cursed to carry water and hew wood for the whiteman for ever and ever.