@article{453495,
      recid = {453495},
      author = {Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, and Okri, Ben.},
      title = {Weep not, child /},
      publisher = {Penguin Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvi, 149 p. ;},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap  and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school,  while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is  Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the  Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the  two brothers and their family need to decide where their  loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is  simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress  through learning is a hard one to give up.First published  in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the  effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of  ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453495},
}