Kamuti Kiteme

Kiteme, son of Kamuti, was born in 1935 in the arid backwater of Mathuki, Mwingi District, Kenya, a few years before European missionaries invaded the area. When he was four his mother became one of the first Christians in the area, and left his father, a traditional medical doctor, to marry a fellow convert in a more "civilized" part of the district. In late adolescence he came to realize the pressing need for formal schooling among his people and resolved …