More Matata

MATATA means trouble in Swahili, and falling in love across racial barriers is big matata, especially in Kenya,a country seething with racial tensions after the Second World War. Lando (protagonist) whisked back from a Jesuit-run boarding school in Goa, finds himself in a non-Catholic Asian school, on  the edge of the ‘African residential locations’ just as the Mau Mau, a secret organization determined to overthrow the colonial government, is slowly spreading its grip of terror from the far-off White Settler occupied Highlands, into urban areas, and even into the servants quarters. In spite of all this matata, Lando and the beautiful Saboti meet again under extraordinary circumstances, and that is the biggest matata of them all.