Kenyan elites who have exploited, abused, neglected, or otherwise wronged residents of Ilmorog—Nderi wa Riera, Mzigo, Chui, and Kimeria—get rich in town due to capitalist development, implying that capitalism leads to unjust social outcomes. That a business group based in the U.S. and UK owns many Theng’eta breweries suggests that international capitalism is colonialism all over again—white-majority Western countries just control Kenya covertly now, through economics, rather than overtly, through government.