This story explores family life and social conflicts in rural Kenya,
beginning with a just-married couple, Nyapol the beautiful bride and
Ochoma the hard-working groom. They have a narrow strip of hill-side
land to farm but after hearing stories of fertile no man’s land in
Tanganyika from successful people who had migrated there, he becomes
dissatisfied with the family land and decides to move over with his
wife. He ignores all pleas from his wife, ageing father and other family
members not to go, and they move. As told, he does get to mark out an
unbelievably large portion of fertile land on arrival in Tanganyika, the
wife produces three children, and he suddenly becomes wealthy.
But
then an envious old tribalistic evil medicine man who feels the
arriving Luo people are arrogant bastards wages ritual warfare against
him and his home. He contracts a strange illness that after running into
the forest and being lost for weeks, no other medicine man could cure.
The “white man’s medicine” also could not cure him. His children and
dependable dog begin to fall ill as well. But then as if by miracle an
uninvited medicine man turns up, and succeeds in curing him. But he is
promptly advised by the medicine man—and virtually forced—to abandon all
the wealth he had acquired and flee back to his village, to avoid
further attacks from the evil man’s front.
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