Author: Isak (Karen Blixen) Dinesen

Cited by

• Richard Crompton (1)
  • IN: Hell's Gate (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They cannot be made slaves, they cannot even be put into prison. They die in prison if they are brought there, within three months, so the English law of the country holds with no penalty of imprisonment for the Masai, they are punished by fines. This stark inability to keep alive under the yoke has given the Masai, alone amongst all the Native tribes, rank with the immigrant aristocracy.
    FROM: Out of Africa, (1937), Book, Denmark