Scope and Contents

The recording takes place at farms in the Embu District (Kenya). The interviewer/main speaker is an East African. He briefly introduces the tape in English but the interviews sound like they are in Kiswahili. Multiple interviews on both sides of the tape.

Scope and Contents Side 1: Speaker/translator is talking to people working on a farm. He speaks mostly in what sounds like Swahili but with a little English mixed in. At one point someone tells a folk story about a woman by a river and an evil spirit. Moris' voice can occasionally be heard in the background. At the 9:30 min mark, a man sounds like he is reading or reciting a prepared speech in English. He talks about social problems in Kenya, such as the disillusionment of people leaving villages to make their...