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George Tafaria Waititu, a man on a mission to make a 'cool' villager
The Vikings' Quarters on the left and the main Tafaria Castle on the right in this picture taken on October 27, 2012. George Tafaria Waititu is driven by one over-arching desire: To inspire other people to appreciate rural areas and debunk the idea that rural areas are not good places to live in and erase the association of such areas with low social prestige. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Growing up in the undulating grassland west of Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdare Ranges, George Tafaria Waititu knew little besides hardship, toil and moil.
His family was, for all intents and purposes, the first to settle in the bushvelds of Deighton Downs, a ranch owned by a white farmer but which had been sold to a settlement scheme. Once the land was subdivided, the members of the scheme started trickling into the desolate land.
