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Mua Hills’ century old history of orchards, slavery

By AMOS KAREITHI

The hyenas and cheetahs no longer roam the valleys and hills preying on goats grazing in the undulating plains as they did 10 decades ago. Gone, too, are the hot and tempered, pipe smoking masters. The predators have been replaced by domesticated dogs, which mind their own business without snarling at villagers going about their business as they till their land.

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