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“Eh, Obama!” A big woman with a scarf on her head strode out of the main house drying her hands on the sides of her flowered ski ...
exhumed coffins. There was a plaque on one of the graves: HUSSEIN ONYANGO OBAMA, B. 1895. D. 1979. The other was covered with ye ...
“The night runners must be out tonight,” Auma said. “What are night runners?” “They’re like warlocks,” Auma said. “Spirit men. W ...
In the morning, Sayid and Yusuf suggested that Auma and I take a tour of the lands. As we followed them across the backyard and ...
I thought about what Sayid had said as we continued to walk. Perhaps he was right; perhaps the idea of poverty had been imported ...
yellow grass, their black, white, and roan markings like lichen against the earth. We turned down a narrower footpath and came t ...
“Roy! What are you doing here?” Roy stood up and they embraced. “You know me. Just looking for a meal. I should ask you the same ...
Sayid caught himself suddenly and smiled. “Of course, I have not even one wife, so I shouldn’t carry on so. Where there is no ex ...
The old man raised his hand and I shook it gently. As we got up to leave, the old man said something else, and Roy nodded his he ...
Sayid paused, choosing his words carefully. “This is what made my brother such a good man, these things. But I think also that o ...
saying? Yah...Dorsila says that when she heard that we had come she walked all the way to see us. She brings greetings from all ...
was known as a great warrior and leader of his people. He helped to defeat the Bantu armies, but the Bantu were allowed to stay ...
Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, beca ...
that had to be paid in the white man’s money. This forced many men to work for wages. He conscripted outright many of our men in ...
honey and which men drank only sparingly, now came in bottles, and many men became drunks. Many of us began to taste the white m ...
People who overheard the conversation began to laugh, and Onyango beat this man severely. But the drunk man’s words must have st ...
At this point, Auma and Granny began to speak at length, and Granny said something that again made the others laugh. Everyone ex ...
unjust. He himself, he would never allow himself to be beaten by a white man. This is how he lost many jobs. If the white man he ...
When we arrived in Alego, most of this land that you now see was bush, and life was hard for all of us. But your grandfather had ...
whom she is promised.” And to the shaman Onyango said, “Go back to where you came from, because there will be no killings in thi ...
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