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Article: The Kikuyu cradle: back, via some troubled history, to the land where Nancy grew up and where her 90-year-old mother still lives.(HISTORY & POLITICS)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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'LOOK, there is a beacon!' says Eliud, Nancy's gregarious and affable eldest brother.
My eye scans the hundreds of hectares of Del Monte-owned pineapple plantation, each fruit barely one foot above the ground. Can Eliud really be referring to pineapple? Or, even more improbably, to the transnational corporation itself?
'Over there!'
Then I see it--one of the four mountains that traditionally marks the land of the Kikuyu people. Eliud's car revs up, leaving behind the fruit-, flower- and coffee-growing areas as we begin the ascent to the cooler tea region. We are nearing Muranga, Nancy's childhood home. The landscape is lush, with sudden ...