". A black character in my novel, Wizard of the Crow, suffers from white- ache, which can be cured only by his becoming white. Name and language loss are the necessary steps toward the loss of his previous identity and his renewal in the new identity."

"In war, all strategies and tactics revolve around the shield and the spear."

"They wept such ceaseless tears into my stream That it has thus far overflowed his shore."

"A few days had brought us nearer to one another. The sense of companionship had gotten the better of the old political differences as well as the deeply rooted aversion of two opposed temperaments, though occasionally the buried differences would drift up to the surface, reawakening an ugly antagonism""

"That from thenceforth each one should take unto him- self a several surname, either of his trade or faculty of some quality of his body or his mind, or of the place where he dwelt, so as every one should be distinguished from the other or from the most part; whereby they shall not only not depend upon the head of their sept as now they do, but also shall in short time learn quite to forget his Irish nation. And therewithal would I also wish all the Oes and the Macs which the heads of the septs have taken to their names to be utterly forbidden and extinguished.1"

"Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves con- scious acts of physical massacre; linguicide, conscious acts of language liquidation."

"Give me a map; then let me see how much Is left for me to conquer all the world, . . ."

"Europe has turned the continent’s linguistic communities into “graveyards over which now lie European linguistic plantations”"

"Literature written by Africans in European languages… can only be termed Afro-European literature; that is, the literature written by Africans in European languages” **Decolonising, 27"

"African Renaissance harbors “the central idea of rebirth and the spring of a new vision of being"

"Just before she dies, Bint Allah always asks her murderers polemical questions: ‘What crime can be the crime of a virgin never touched by the hand of a man?’"

"Wherever they went, in their voyages of land, sea, and mind, Europeans planted their own memories on whatever they contacted."

"‘It was he that took me away from my misery. I saw him seated on his throne and fell in love with him immediately’"

"His body was foiund on the road to the Palma.'"

"This contact is characterized by dismemberment. An act of absolute social engineering…"

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

"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…”"

"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...”"

"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…”"

"My mother died a virgin and so will I’, to which they reply, ‘You are the child of sin and your mother was stoned to death’"

"[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.”"

"Justice for the oppressed comes from a sharpened spear.""

"A strange face, neither human nor animal; a face that belonged not to a man, or to a father, or to an Imam’"

"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.”"

"there are people who reap benefits from singing the approved tune, those who dance in step with the approved dance.""

"Only Tolba believes it possible and suggests that the motive is a hidden love of Zohra"

"how can the present conditions continue when foreigners, be they from Europe or America, can always get places on which to pitch their tents? Tents in which to hide their military gadgets? Tents in which to store the wealth stolen from us?""

"Democracy here means, first, fending for oneself.""

"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.”"

"Their blood mingled with the soil, and they became patriots, ready for the armed struggle to come."

"There is no night so long that it does not end with dawn.""

"He had gone home, convinced that inwardly he had given himself up to the Lord, and decided to do something about his sins. He stole a matchbox, collected a bit of grass and dry cowdung and built an imitation of Amina’s house at Kamiritho where he had sinned against the Lord, and burnt it.”"

"The road had once been a railway line joining Ilmorog to Ruwa-ini. […] It had eaten the forests, and after accomplishing their task, the two rails were removed, and the ground became a road—a kind of a road—that now gave no evidence of its former exploiting glory.”"

"So a handful of people still profited from the suffering of the majority, the sorrow of the many being the joy of the few?""

"They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night’s vigil on the mountain.”"

"Haunting memories from the past; the year of the locust; the year of the armyworms; the year of the famine of cassava […] uncontrolled nature was always a threat to human endeavor."

"We are all searchers for a tiny place in God’s corner to shelter us for a time from treacherous winds and rains and drought. This was all that I had wanted him to see: that the force he sought could only be found in the blood of the Lamb."

"Kenyan people had always been ready to resist foreign control and exploitation. The story of this heroic resistance: who will sing it? Their struggles to defend their land, their wealth, their lives: who’ll tell of it?"

"But boys were always more confident about the future than us girls. They seemed to know what they wanted to become later in life: whereas with us girls the future seemed vague . . . It was as if we knew that no matter what efforts we put into our studies, our road led to the kitchen and to the bedroom."

"A group started singing a few native cultural songs...And they would burst out laughing and clapping at the daring of their voices. There were also a few Swahili and English ones. It was a truly culturally integrated party and Munira lost courage. He merely stood at the door, eaten by indecision..."

"can imagine the fatal meeting between the native and the alien. The missionary had traversed the seas, the forests, armed with the desire for profit that was his faith and light and the gun that was his protection. He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity."

"We must always be ready to plant the seed in these last days before His second coming. All the signs—strife, killing, wars, blood—are prophesied here.’"

"A child belongs to all, that a nation's beauty was born in a child, a future patriot..."

"They nearly all had one thing in common: submission to the Lord. They called him Brother Ezekieli, our brother in Christ, and they would gather in the yard of the house after work for prayers and thanksgiving. There were of course some who had devilish spirits which drove them to demand higher wages and create trouble on the farm and they would be dismissed."

"For there are many questions about our history which remain unanswered. Our present day historians, following on similar theories yarned out by defenders of imperialism, insist we only arrived here yesterday."

"Karega and his following of Theng'eta factory workers were not any different: they had rejected it is true mere brotherhood of the skin, region, and community of origins and said no to both black and white and Indian employers of labour. But they too would fail: because they had also rejected the most important brotherhood—the only brotherhood—of religion, of being born anew in the Lord of the universe and of the eternal kingdom."

"Christian, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity."

"Only two nights ago we all drank Theng'eta together to celebrate a harvest and a successful ending of what was certainly a difficult year in Ilmorog. It was a good harvest and you'll agree with me that such a sense of common destiny, a collective spirit, is rare. That is why the old woman rightly called it a drink of peace. Now it has turned out to be a drink of strife.""

"Wanja, page 338."