His tribe. it listed the number of teeth he had missing. and he was referred to as a boy, even though he was a grown man in that pass book. and he was in the king's african rifles during the second world war, and was taken to the far reaches of the british empire, to burma. he was released. he forged a home for himself and his family here and the respect of his village, lived a life of dignity, although he had a well-earned reputation for being so strict that everybody was scared of him, and he became estranged from part of his family. so that was his history. then my father came of age as