"Colour bar was everywhere. Rich Africans could also practise colour bar on the poorer Africans…”"
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Weep Not, Child
Weep Not,child, is a 1964 novel by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. It was his first novel, published in 1964 under the name James Ngugi. It was among the African Writers Series. It was the first English novel to be published by an East African.Thiong'o's works deal with the relationship between Africans and white settlers in colonial Kenya, and are heavily critical of colonial rule.Specifically, Weep Not, Child deals with the Mau Mau Uprising,and "the bewildering dispossession of an entire peop
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