Weep Not Child

Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 February 1988 by Pearson Education Limited (Heinemann) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Heinemann African Writers Series' series.

Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family must decide where their loyalties lie.