The village pastor

 Leonard Kibera was born in Kenya in 1942 and educated in Kenya and the United states. In 1968 he published with his brother Samuel Kahiga a collection of short stories Protent Ash, for which the piece is taken.All the stories were set at the time of Mau Mau uprising and the struggle for independence in the 1950'. Kibera was displays of a wide range of sympathie he does not condemn the men in the bar out of hand and he view the pastor with a mixture of respect and humour.The ending is not the cynical but simply acknowledges that all the often we recognize the good but content ourselves with something rather less admire, and set our sight rather  lower than we should

Location: Kibera, NAIROBI, KENYA