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I can see why Gotorkai has been killing himself to make enough money to pay your dowry.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
You see eh, when we old people tell you children to listen to your parents, you say this is a new age.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
My advice to you as a friend is, never contemplate such a major undertaking without it being looked into.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
Some people who pretend to be your friends are the very ones who help to spoil your palava.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
I feel that a girl should be given a chance to look around before she decides on one man.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
Gortokai, when you have reached my age, you will agree that good rum, delicious food and some money, not too much, to keep you worrying, are to be desired more than a beautiful unfaithful woman.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
Gortokai, you have done so much for my old parents, we owe it to you to give you a wife. If I had a husband with money.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
You think I have just been eating rice for nothing eh? I am an old kuba, Kema.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
....times are changing. It’s hard to depend on people these days.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
If you are a professional palm wine drinker, that is, a habitude, or a connoisseur, the most sensible thing to do when you arrive in a strange town is to associate yourself with a palm wine circle. By so doing you get to know all the current gossip of that town.
Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)