The author had a lot of respect to the government. Even though she talks about the love and respect that she had with the natives, it is clearly evident that she viewed them to be less superior as compared to the Europeans. In the book, she has developed several characterless both Europeans and Africans.

The book Out of Africa and the Shadows in the Grass mainly talk about the life and experience of Isak Dinesen in British East Africa (Dinesen, 1989). As a result, the author and the African natives had no option but to support the colonial government. The settlers were also protected by the law since it favored them more than the native Africans. The colonial government also offered them protection and security. It is this administration that supported them while in the colony in terms of provision of land and capital during the early days. They worked for 180 days and in return they were given wages and the right to live and farm in their master’s land.Īlthough the book talks about the beautiful life and the landscape of the countryside which the author describes she and other settlers in the colony supported the colonial administration. 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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