You can be parallel to something as in next to or you will pass it
In 98 BC Rome expelled all non-Roman citizens (except slaves). It was a time in Rome when the non-Romans were not allowed to stay in the city unless they were slaves. Rome was a place of religion and history no foreign outsiders were allowed.
I believe it was Great Britain/ England.
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.