Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one comes across a peculiar sight. Not very far from the largest national park in the country, the ominously named ‘Tsavo’, which to the Kamba people means ‘a place of slaughter,’ lies a small and unassuming town called MacKinnon Road with a population of less than 10,000.1 In this very town in the dry heart of Kwale county, there lies a tomb belonging to a descendent of the Prophet … Continue reading Saints of the Savannah Series: The Punjabi Labourer