"He wanted to help her. This feeling warmed him inside."
"He wanted somebody, anybody, who would use the claims of kinship to do him ill or good. Either one or the other as long as he was not left alone, an outsider."
"Then nobody noticed it; but looking back we can see that Waiyaki’s blood contained within it a seed, a grain, which gave birth to a political party whose main strength thereafter sprang from a bond with the soil."
"Maybe an African? I suppose they’re Africanising everywhere now?"