So fascinated by Rodgers’s tenor yodeling sound that they thought of him as a deity

The most bizarre manifestation of Rodgers’s worldwide appeal came right after World War II in Kenya, after a British missionary played some of Jimmie’s records for members of the Kipsigis tribe. Apparently, some of the tribesmen were so fascinated by Rodgers’s tenor yodeling sound that they thought of him as a deity and they made up a sing about him called “Chemirocha” that they sang at religious ceremonies for many years 

B. Malone, Country Music USA (5th Edition, 2018), 101

We are interested only in people who steal because their bellies are full

The master of ceremonies leaped on to the platform and called for silence. He addressed the audience and told them this was a competition for thieves and robbers, real ones - that is, those who had reached international standards. Stories of people braking padlocks in village huts or snatching purses from poor market women were shameful in the eyes of real experts in theft and robbery, and more so when such stories were narrated in front of international thieves and robbers. The foreigners had not travelled all this way to meet people who stole just because they were hungry or needed clothes and jobs. Such petty thieves and robbers were criminals. "Here, in this cave, we are interested only in people who steal because their bellies are full," the master of ceremonies said, patting his stomach.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Devil on the cross (1980. English version 1982), 103

Taken to keep the white man's shambas alive while theirs fell into neglect and waste!

Some were taken to work on European farms while the white man went to war. Imagine that: taken to keep the white man's shambas alive while theirs fell into neglect and waste! For a woman alone can never do all the work on the farm. How could she grow sugar cane, yams, sweet potatoes which used to be man's domain.

N. wa Thiong'o, Petals of blood (1977), 254