Melanges and Portraits V1 (1888)

This book covers the struggle of a young Englishman trying to come to terms with the political and social changes taking place in the Kenya of the 1950s. Fighting the Mau Mau terrorist uprising that threatened the existence of the white farming community of the rich Central Highlands, lacking the moral support of a Conservative government faltering under the growing demand for land reform and decolonisation, this was the start of the rush to home rule in Africa and the introduction of single-party government democracy. Filled with love, lust and the desire of two Colonial policemen for the same woman, this is the story of a Kenya that was coming to an end that few could suspect, an end that took the lives of white settlers and black freedom fighters alike but did nothing to produce a democratic and thriving country.