https://youtu.be/JvAHsTWN5v8
This is the debut episode of an occasional series I‘m launching on my BookTube. Each episode will be a brief chat with another bookish social media personality about a book-related article. For this one, the incomparable Nyambura and I chat about the controversial Ngũgĩ wa Thiong‘o article in The Guardian.
September covers (minus two, including the tagged novel). #toomuchreadingforatidyscreenshot #SeptemberStats
pickThis short, tragic story—told with a light touch—brings to life universal experiences of colonialism: dispossession from ancestral lands, cruel injustices and the crushing of hope for a better future. Why read a depressing story set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya? Because it‘s one you may never forget. And because novels like this help us understand exactly how the aftereffects of colonialism are still being felt, all over the world.
I‘ve just started the tagged classic and it is reminding me strongly of another Kenyan novel set in the same era: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. This bodes well.
I stared at my bookcase for quite a while and I came up with this as the best I could do! 😁😁😁
Weep not, child
Dreams from my father
Number the stars
#spinepoetry
#marchintoreading
Ngotho had never known where the other son had gone to. Now he understood. He wanted to tell him of his own son: he longed to say, 'You took him away from me.' But he kept quiet. Only he thought Mr. Howlands should not complain. It had been his war.
Weep Not, Child | 
