Labor in the farm was provided by the local squatters from the Kikuyu community. She lived in a huge coffee plantation that was about 6,000 acres in size. She arrived from Denmark to marry her spouse and settled in a farm located 10 miles from the colony`s capital, Nairobi. The book mainly describes the author`s life in Africa where she lived and called home for close to 20 years. Most of these settlers were attracted to this offer, including Isak Dinesen (Karin Blixen) and moved to the colonial protectorates.
The colonial governments promised these settlers huge tracts of land and availability of cheap labor for the any production process that they would engage in while at the farm. The author, Isak Dinesen and other European settlers moved to Africa to look for a new and better life away from home (Enloe, 2000). As a foreigner living in Africa, the author of Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass supports the colonial system that was imposed by the British colonial in British East Africa now know as Kenya.
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