A Grain of Wheat Lesson Plan

What do we know about Mugo's life? Why did he turn to the soil after his aunts death?

Mugo's mother and father died poor, leaving him, an only child, in the hands of a distance aunt. His aunt, Waitherero, was a widow with six married daughters who never visited her. She was a drunk who often verbally abused Mugo. The more feeble she became, the more she hated Mugo. She led Mugo to believe he was completely inadequate. It got to the point where Mugo contemplated murdering her. Not using a weapon, but his own hands around her throat, intimately. His aunt eventually died of old age and over drinking. Her daughters came to the hut, buried her, and left - completely ignoring...