Sitting on the balcony one cool evening, Wa-Noa momentarily lapses into deep meditation as he reflects on the gaping disparities in his life. His thoughts wander around three consecutive generations of an African family, over a time span stretching from the eighteen eighties to the nineteen sixties. Narrated in a candid and richly informative historical background, Meeting of Strangers underscores the impacts of colonialism and its gruesome manifestations, on the natural lives of Africans. It is a story of a boy growing up in the British Colony of Kenya, the acrimonious confrontations between...