😢 KCSE Set Book Study Guide
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1964
Ngũgĩ's first published novel, Weep Not Child is set during Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. It follows young Njoroge, who believes education will save his family and his country, as the Emergency tears apart everything he loves. It is a coming-of-age story set against the brutal backdrop of colonial violence.