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Stones from afar
Baraza told a number of other stories, some funny, some tragic. After he was ordained, Baraza was sent by the church to work with the Pokot, a nomadic pastoral people with a well earned reputation for fierceness, who live between Kenya and Uganda. He worked among them for ten years, then left to study anthropology and religion at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
As part of that study, Baraza spent time in Bethlehem, Israel.
“I had three Arab students. I went to them to take me to the Bedouin, so I could compare them to the Pokot, they are both nomadic,” began Baraza.
“It was a journey of five miles. As soon as we go there these students went back very fast because they didn't want to be noticed by the Israeli government. They would have been arrested and beat up for traveling without permission.
The Bedouin, they saw me as coming from the U.S., not Kenya. They thought I was white, and wanted me to bring stuff for them, you know. When they saw I was black, they thought, hmm, many black people are rich in America. We ll wait and see.
As soon as I arrived, they said they had three gifts for me. They gave me a small cup, said this is coffee' in Arabic. They said drink it, and said men drink once, not twice. So I swallowed it. It was sooo bitter. And he said we do not give just one, and so he gave another. That was the second gift. It was rough. Then went to a tent, and got a long sword, and I thought, oh, Lord, that was the end of me. I thought I was finished. He said 'we want you to know we won't kill you with this one', and I was thinking what does that
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