This means that the churches, the schools, the poetry, the songs, the cinema, the beer halls, the clubs, the newspapers will act as brain-washing poisons whose purpose will be to convince the worker that in this world there is nothing as glorious as slavery to the Kimeendeeri class, so that each worker will look forward to the day he dies when his body will become fertilizer to make the farm more productive. The intellectual and spiritual and cultural brainwashing poisons will make the workers believe, literally to obey the Kimeendeeri class is to obey God and that to anger or oppose their overloads is to anger and oppose God.
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
