Caste in Half: Half-white half-black – one woman’s journey to resolve her past in the heartland of Kenya

The fog comes towards my mothers village early in the morning a floating mass that moves towards the hills and vanishes in the blue sky. Then we see a beautiful view of the Sigor Valley below a vast plain of game country that stretches as far as the eyes can see...After leaving England with a double fi rst from Oxford University Susan Robinsons father moved to Kenya to work for the colonial government. Her mother was Pokot from a small village of grass-thatched houses on the African plains.As Susan and her siblings grow up in the knowledge that they are half-white half-black they struggle to establish their identities in a society that can be ruthlessly cruel to outsiders. Emotionally intellectually and culturally they are torn between their mothers and their fathers worlds. This is the story of their survival and their journey to freedom in the rapidly changing world of the 1960s.Caste in Half is also a hymn to the beauty and majesty of Kenya conjuring up vivid images of the countrys incredible landscape flora and fauna. Written with great passion and a profound awareness of a way of life that has now passed into history it is a memoir that will haunt you for a long time to come.