But to be on the safe side, Kimeendeeri will build prisons and law courts and will hire armed forces, so that anyone who opposes Shamba’s system of laws or wishes to leave the confines of the farm will be punished by being jailed or detained in pits of total darkness or shot and thrown to the hyenas in Ngnog Hills.
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
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