RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)

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On the farm he’ll build churches or mosques, depending on the religious inclinations of the workers. He will employ priests. Every Sunday the workers will read sermons that will instruct them that the system of milking human sweat, human blood and human brains-the system of the robbery of human labour power and human skills is ordained by God and that it has something to do with the eventual salvation of their souls. It is written in the Holy Scriptures. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are they that think no ill of man for they shall see God.

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982

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