Weep Not, Child by Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Ben Okri

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Ben Okri [Thiong’o, Ngugi wa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101584842
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE

Exactly two and a half years later, on a certain hill overlooking Nairobi, there stood a disillusioned government official. He was all alone, looking at the country he would soon be leaving.

Why do you stand there amazed?

I did not know that this would come to be.

But you saw the signs?

No. I didn’t.

You did.

I didn’t!

But–

I tell you I didn’t. We tried our best.

He walked away, stamping his feet angrily on the ground.

‘And to think of all we did for them,’ he said. The dumb city he and others of his kind had helped to create looked at him. There was no comfort from that corner, the very centre of the trouble.

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