As gifted Kenyan diplomat Martin Kimani has recently written, terrorism of the sort experienced in Kenya stems from the desire of certain individuals to return to nostalgic, misremembered pasts; it is the abhorrent consequence of fundamentalist thinking, whether this be the religious ideology of any faith, or a narrowly political ideology.

Ugly stepsister: Oral literature was denigrated in often racist fashion by colonial anthropologists.

The persistence of ‘whites’ in Kenya is perhaps best demonstrated by the Portuguese, who first arrived in Mombasa in the early 16th century.