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Forced out of the preacher's household because of his romance with the churchman's ward, Ivan turns to running dope for a living. When he attempts to rebel against the strictures of the ganga trade--which lives under the protection of a corrupt government--the penalties grow heavy. Dope brings in high profits for certain middlemen; low wages are paid to the growers, and to the runners as well, who move the stuff between the countryside and the cities...
...WHEN the police hassle Ivan for refusing to accept the tiny share of the ganga profits which the authorities have delegated to the runners, that the calm confidence, the disguised naivite which Ivan has imported with him from the country to Kingston breaks down. When he refuses to submit to capture, killing a pursuing motorcycle cop, he finds his role as the renegade. Having been through the religion and music rackets, Ivan finally rests content with the rule of the gun. It marks his outright acceptance of the violence which lives behind the rackets...
...pimp, he steals a white convertible and circles the car on a golf course. The tail lights flash on the green, and Cliff's song "You can make it if you really want (but you must try)" blares accompaniment. With childlike delight, he pursues the boss of the ganga runners through the streets of Kingston, shooting at his heels...
...medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent $9,000,000 in the past year to erect 160 modern medical centers and 266 dispensaries. Even some whites turn to the resident M'ganga now and then...
...Spot. The A.P.A. is headed by a pair of grizzled Nairobi medicine men, M'ganga Ngari Kinyugo and Ayurvedic Vaid Bhagwandas Patel, and has attracted 2,000 members from Lake Victoria to Mombasa, charges dues of 280 a month, holds monthly meetings, forms committees and clashes with the government, just like medical associations elsewhere. It also feuds with rival organizations, notably one called African Repairs, whose aim is simply the repair of Africans but whose choice of name is unfortunate. Said one almost-member: "It sounds too much like a society of garage mechanics...