Weep Not, Child

"Aaa! You could never tell what these people would do. In spite of the fact that they were all white, they killed one another with poison, fire and big bombs that destroyed the land.”"

"Any man who had land was considered rich. If a man had plenty of money, many motor cars, but no land, he could never be counted as rich. A man who went with tattered clothes but had at least an acre of red earth was better off than the man with money.”"

"[Njoroge] always thought that schooling was the very best that a boy could have. It was the end of all living. And he wanted everyone to go to school.”"

"Yes, that’s how your land was taken away. The Bible paved the way for the sword.”"

"Colour bar was everywhere. Rich Africans could also practise colour bar on the poorer Africans…”"

"All white people stick together. But we black people are very divided. And because they stick together, they’ve imprisoned Jomo, the only hope we had. Now they’ll make us slaves. They took us to their wars and they killed all that was of value to us…”"

"“I was thinking that if Jesus knew, really knew, about this thing in our country, He could have stopped it.”"

"It’s strange. It’s strange how you do fear something because your heart is already prepared to fear because maybe you were brought up to fear that something, or simply because you found others fearing...”"