Oh now i get it.
Well the answer should be in a general election, each state has officials who count and CERTIFY votes.
The officials have to make sure that the people who give their vote have the credibility and rights to voice their vote, to avoid any sort of Election fraud that may negatively effect one candidate.
to work long hours at this point
There were more jobs in the cities, if everyone worked on a farm there wuld be more than billions of grocery stores, then they would be wasting food because not everyone would buy evrything!
They were located in the great plains
It shows the culture of the Kikuyu people in its entirety both
its virtues and its flaws. It shows the
identity of a people and the changes they go through both in ancient times to
the modern era. The author wanted to
give more insight to the culture of his people that is not as primitive as the
Europeans view it.