In order to know the truth, a person has to be willing to give up fondly held beliefs and cease clinging to things he thinks he knows, when evidence shows them to be false.
IOW, forget anything written in “Dreams”. Erase it from the memory. Start from scratch, and the picture looks very, very different.
‘Dreams’ is useful only for what Ayres left out (LIKE SEATTLE)and the obvious cover-up, like ‘granny’ Sarah saying to Kezia’s brood, NONE OF YOU ARE HIS CHILDREN! They had to include that, because most of the people in the village KNEW and Mark was the only one to inherit the kenyan’s personal possessions. The clan is STILL fighting over the land...and ‘granny’ refuses to give Malik permission to build a mosque...now why might that be? Could it be because HER son, Joseph/Yusuf with whom the kenyan went to school at Maseno...has the right of inheritance as the eldest son of ONYANGO!
One day we may see Malik wearing that cap and carrying the whisk, but it won’t be until YUSUF is dead.