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Weep not, child african writers by thiongo, ngugi wa and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Thiongos works deal with the relationship between africans and the british colonists in africa, and are heavily critical of british colonial rule. Since then hundreds of novels by kenyans have been published. Ngugi gives us an intimate account of how real people and families were effected by the mau mau rebellion in kenya in the 1950s and how the same interests of preserving land rights got cast as vastly different and racialized interests, resulting in the deaths of many. A memoir of a writers awakening, 2016 secure the base, 2016 in the name of the mother. The nobel prizenominated kenyan writers powerful first novel two brothers, njoroge and kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Njoroge is to attend school, while kamau will train to be a carpenter. Specifically, weep not, child deals with the mau mau uprising, and the bewildering dispossession of an entire people from their ancestral land. The book is divided into two parts and eighteen chapters.
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