Biblical Usage and Abusage in Kenyan Writing

Didn't Minister tell me when I was confirmed not read any book except my Bible hymn that Devil was in rest? And I never have read any other book, said Tant' Sannie with virtuous energy, and I never will! This forthright statement supposedly spoken in Cape Dutch, her only language, by ugly unsavoury Tant' Sannie derives from Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm.' Both book its characters were be pathfinders future writers on experience of change brought about by Christianity in Continent of Africa. Africans play but a minimal part in book and, in a reflective culturally revealing passage, Lyndall, girl we watch growing up on farm, meditates upon a near naked Kaffir as walks home ... he is a splendid fellow, she thinks, six feet high, with a magnificent pair of legs. In his leather bag is going fetch his rations, I suppose kick his wife with his beautiful legs when gets home. has a right to; bought her for two oxen. There is a lean dog going after him whom I suppose never gives more than a bone from which has sucked marrow; but his dog loves him as his wife does. There is something of master about him in spite of his blackness wool. See how brandishes his stick holds up his head. is collect his paternalistic rations is thought by Lyndall be the most interesting intelligent thing in sight. What is happen him is question. He wakes thoughts that run far outside future back into past (p. 208). To correct distortions express thoughts of black people Sol T. Plaatje was write Mhudi in about 1917, first novel written by an African in English. In event book was not published until 1930. The stated intention of author was to interpret reading public one phase 'of back of native

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