Six Blind Men & An Alien

Authors: Mike Resnick

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“What the Government Official Saw Charles Njobo stared at the body of the creature. He knew this party was not the first to discover it, because there were no weapons to be found anywhere in the vicinity of the body. He could believe that the creature’s clothes had rotted away over the years despite the snow and ice, but not its weapons. Someone had taken them, Why was he so certain? Because he was a Zanake, and because he was a Tanzanian. Before there was a Tanzania, there were just tribes-and the Zanake had been exploited by the Arabs and then the Germans and the British, and been conquered by the Maasai, and the Nandi and half a dozen other tribes. Then they became Tanzanians, and the Kenyans had dominated them economically, and Idi Amin’s Uganda had invaded them, and the great powers in Europe still held their purse strings. So of course the creature was an alien, here to conquer his people. Wasn’t that what everyone came here for? Charles Njobo was the second blind man.

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