He knows very well he did neither, that pledges to him were broken like pledges
to every body else, and that total abstinence no more secures truthfulness in .... if
we abandoned all exercise of political powers ; and finally, that England had got "
quite black men enough " to look after, and had " better not go in for more.

... raiding parties out of the Aberdare forests, so Ben was leery of the mysterious
stringbean black man. Ben often felt that Odinga looked down on him as a
spoiled brat. Ben should keep his mouth shut, the way African boys did, stay out
of adults' business. But that wasn't Ben's way. He was too much like his mother. "
Odinga ...

The Black Man's Country notion developed into a plan to trace through the lives
of an imaginary Kikuyu family the coming of the white man into a world of ... Men
and women still in their fifties and sixties could remember at first hand, not from
hearsay, what tribal life was like before white men came along to disturb and then
 ...

'And the Aberdare and Ogmore lot, remember – us first, them later,' said Moses
Culpepper, soprano. 'Isaid itbefore – strength in numbers – two ... 'Aye, but he's
right,' said Ed Masumbala, the black man, and men went quiet,forhe rarely spoke;
much respected was he, like Beli, his black missus. 'Strength isright; we gottostick
 ...