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The Blood Of a Stranger
Maligu the chief advisor to king Mando V, declares that an unidentified white man would be their village guest soon as written to him in the letter sent by his brother from the city. He seeks and find the cooperation of soko the priest of the village shrine to prophecy of that the land should z thzis guest. This manipulated prophesy is against the existing spiritual ordinance of the community not to accept visitors which has been observed since the war in the land. It is a difficult injection for the people to accept. To them strangers represent illness, disease and aggression. However because soko is the ordained priest of the village that has always interceded between them and their forefathers, the people have no reason to question or doubt his divination; their forefathers must have sent his vision. They prepare therefore to receive the visitor. Kindo chief worrior and son of the king, feels otherswise and sense something is wrong because of the strange alliance between soko and maligu on the news. knowing that the two are fraudulent and dishonest, kindo became suspicious of soko's claim that he received the vision to admit the stanger into Mando land. The whiteman symbolically called whitehead arrives and shows little or no respect for the culture and traditions of the land. Kindo forces him to order and a seed of discord between them is shown. White head soon takes maligu into confidence that his true motive of coming is the diamonds on their land. He has given the king a false impression he is in their land to cultivate a tobacco farm, build a school and help the village from the proceeds of the tabacco farm.Indeed,his actual purpose is to have the farmers unsuspectingly harvest the diamonds for him.