A review by shalini_b
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

4.0

Weep Not, child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The book showcases the lives and struggles of people living in Kenya during the British Colonial rule and the Mau Mau uprising. It makes us face the hard reality of life under the colonial rule, the pain and suffering families go through during war, the effect of world wars on African nation - Kenya, how the dreams of the young and the old have been shattered and moves in the end to how all faith in hope is lost.
This being my first book on African history, although fiction made me see the life under colonial rule - families torn apart, turning people against people, somehow made me feel that the book is more close to reality than imagination.