Chapter 6
ALIMA ENTERED THE AREA where her husband slept, located in the tent they shared. Her face was altered.
“What's wrong woman?” Abdullah looked startled at his wife.
“Ahmed is crazy. You must come to see this.”
The Sheikh dressed hurriedly and left his tent. He immediately realized what had alarmed his wife. Ahmed ben Assaff made his entry into the aduar preceding a long, sad caravan. He came riding his spirited Arabian horse, followed by about ten of his Bedouin followers and a large group of Kamba Warriors -who Abdullah considered the dregs of the Bantu people for their savagery and brutality- who paraded led by a chieftain wearing a leopard fur. Behind them marched to the tumbles a grieving crowd of men, women and children of ethnicities unknown to the Sheikh, tied together
