Includes bibliographical references and index.

How I grew -- We were wearing skins -- Our good things were ca lled evil -- My message came through measles -- No longer a boy - - A time when Hitler laughed -- Black market -- Paid from the center -- Somebody to help me -- These Africans are not fearing n ow -- Timber -- The emergency -- The shot you have heard -- The forest -- A violent rainstorm blames the wind -- The one who dug the hole is the one who fell in -- Die without noise -- T ake him to Kimathi -- "The year of Mau Mau" -- Uhuru -- Surren der -- Eating sand -- Kenyatta won't come to Manyani -- Follow ing the pipeline -- I was fearing politics -- Who was first becom es last -- Wazeehood -- "Forget the past" -- I will stop danci ng when I see my child coming to dance -- Too much of anything is po isonous -- Nothing culture -- Epilogue: now is the time I prayed to see.