Karibu ! That is a word that many a visitor will hear as soon as they arrive in Kenya. Kenya, the land of great sceneric beauty and friendly people, lies in the eastern part of Africa. It borders Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia and Tanzania. It also borders the Indian ocean and Lake Victoria. It...
Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...
