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WEEP NOT CHILD - NGUGI WA THIONGO TASCHENBUCH

The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel Two brothers  Njoroge and Kamau
stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school  while Kamau
will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya  and the times are against them: In the forests
the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government  and the two brothers and their family
need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau  the choice is simple  but
for Njoroge the scholar  the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. The
first East African novel published in English  Weep Not  Child explores the effects of the
infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women  and on one family in
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