Kikuyu sage Mugo wa Kibiru prophesied about a dangerous serpent that would come from the sea carrying pale-skinned people who would colonise locals and erode their culture.
The community considered the Kenya-Uganda railway the serpent, British administrators the colonists and missionaries spoilers of their culture.
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