Download Free Audio Weep Not, Child Books

Weep Not, Child

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Paperback | Pages: 136 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 2398 Users | 203 Reviews

Specify Of Books Weep Not, Child

Title	:	Weep Not, Child
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 136 pages
Published	:	April 30th 1988 by Heinemann Educational Books (first published May 1964)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Literature. African Literature. Eastern Africa. Kenya. Classics

Ilustration Conducive To Books Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. 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.

Weep Not, Child is Ngũgĩ’s first novel, published in 1964.

Itemize Books Concering Weep Not, Child

Original Title:	Weep Not, Child (African Writers)
ISBN:	0435908308 (ISBN13: 9780435908300)
Edition Language:	English

Rating Of Books Weep Not, Child

Ratings: 3.86 From 2398 Users | 203 Reviews

Piece Of Books Weep Not, Child

This was mandatory read back (way back) in secondary school but the struggle in Kenya pervades today's disenfranchised "Africa" resulting in the kidnapping of the "Nigerian Chibok girls" to the west; hijacking of ocean liners by Somalian pirates in the east; economic mismanagement by leadership of most African countries and many more tragic situations which have led to citizens being displaced and corrupt government officials being celebrated. I can't help but think of the irony that is Walt

A simple story, told simply. Yet perpetually surprising. Ending in despair, it has foretold the unhappy half century since the events it narrates. This early novel also foretells the brilliant literature that Kenya's foremost author would come to write.

A simple story, told simply. Yet perpetually surprising. Ending in despair, it has foretold the unhappy half century since the events it narrates. This early novel also foretells the brilliant literature that Kenya's foremost author would come to write.

Quo wrote: "Jim: I've never been to Angola but did visit Mozambique when it was still a Portuguese colony and while there may have been some racism

3.5 starsThis feels like it would be nicer if consumed as an audiobook - as it is, the prose appears simple but feels like someone simply speaking to you.This novella deals with a child going to school just as Kenya moves towards independence. We're introduced to the main character (Njoroge) as a child and the narrative maintains that child-like sense throughout the novella (until the end). Events happen; Njoroge is a passive bystander to them. Njoroge's brothers appear to be actors, and to some

This is the great Ngugi's first novel, published over 50 years ago! The book showed his immense potential and talent as an imaginative writer. Though the novel is based on the shattering reality of the Mau Mau movement in East Africa. The author creates quite a number convincing characters, not only blacks. Njoroge, a youngster is apparently the main protagonist as his family is affected profoundly by the sombre, even violent events, and much of the action is filtered through him. It might be

Weep Not Child by Ngugi wa Theong'o is an early novel by one of Kenya's more prominent writers, someone who came of age as an author just as the struggle for independence was causing both considerable intellectual ferment and widespread bloodshed during the time of the Mau Mau insurrection, called the Emergency by the white colonial administration and the many British settlers, especially those in the so-called "White Highlands" of Kenya.I'd read this book while living & teaching in Kenya