NAME: JULIUS PETER NAANKANG

MATRIC NO: 0544

DEPARTMENT: CRS/SOS

LEVEL: NCE 1

DATE: 16/3/2021

The BLOOD OF A STRANGER

Maligu, the chief of adviser to the king Santigi Mando, declares that an
unidentified white man would be the village guest soon, as written to him in a
letter sent by his brother from the city. He seeks and find the cooperation of soko,
the priest of the village shrine, to prophesy that the land should welcome the
guest. This manipulated prophesy is against the existing spiritual ordinance of the
community not to accept visitors, which has been observed since the war in land.
It is a difficult injunction for the people to accept. Strangers represent illness,
disease, and aggression. However, because soko is the ordained priest of the
village that has always interceded between them and forefathers, kindo, chief
warrior and son of the king, feels otherwise and senses something is wrong
because of the strange alliance between soko and maligu on this news. Kindo
becomes suspicious of soko’s clain that he received the vision to admit the
stronger into mando land the white man, symbolically called whitehead, arrives
and shows little or no respect for the culture and traditions of the land.
Kindo forces him to order and a seed of discord between them is sown.
Whitelead soon takes maligu into confidence that his true motive of coming is the
diamonds on their land. He has given the king a false impression he is in their land
to cultivate a tobacco farm, build a school and help the village from the proceeds
at the tobacco farm. Indeed, his actual purpose is to have the farmers
unsuspecting harvest the diamonds for him.