Kabango a leader of the Kikuyu Tribe in The Story of Kikuyu Chief, states “We elders looked at each other. Was this the end of everything that we had known and worked for? What magic had this on of my father made that he who was not yet and Elder should be made leader over us all who were so much older and wiser in the ways of our people? It was as if a thunderbolt had fallen among us.” (St. Barbe Baker). Europeans went against the customs of Africans in the government. Only elders were allowed to be leaders but the Europeans choose a young person to represent them with the Africans. The elders had lost all of their political power and it was all held by Europeans. They had lost all of their rights over their land in Africa and it was now being controlled by the
Kabango a leader of the Kikuyu Tribe in The Story of Kikuyu Chief, states “We elders looked at each other. Was this the end of everything that we had known and worked for? What magic had this on of my father made that he who was not yet and Elder should be made leader over us all who were so much older and wiser in the ways of our people? It was as if a thunderbolt had fallen among us.” (St. Barbe Baker). Europeans went against the customs of Africans in the government. Only elders were allowed to be leaders but the Europeans choose a young person to represent them with the Africans. The elders had lost all of their political power and it was all held by Europeans. They had lost all of their rights over their land in Africa and it was now being controlled by the