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God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.

— Jomo Kenyatta

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Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.]]

For the extinction of a kinship groups means cutting off the ancestral spirits from visiting the earth, because there is no one left to communicate with them.

Facing Mount Kenya (1938)

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Communism is as bad as imperialism.

The Gikuyu lost most of their lands through their magnanimity, for the Gikuyu country was never wholly conquered by force of arms, but the people were put under the ruthless domination of European imperialism through the insidious trickery of hypocritical treaties.

Facing Mount Kenya (1938)

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