Waiyaki: an ambitious young man who tries to save his people from the white man by building schools and providing education. As tensions rise between the ridges, Waiyaki and Nyambura encounter each near the river a few times and begin to fall in love even though they know no one would approve of them. Waiyaki asks her to marry him, but she refuses even though she loves him. One time when they are together, Kabonyi’s son, Kamau, glimpses the two; he is jealous of Waiyaki and vows to destroy him. Nicholls, Brendon. 2003. "Clitoridectomy and gikuyu nationalism in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The River Between". Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25 (2): 40–55. essence of an institution which has enormous educational, social, moral and religious implications, quite apart from Ngugi]. He said, “I’ve done something awful.” I said, “What can I do? How can I help?” He said, “I’ve started writing

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any I enjoyed sinking into this gloriously rich novel, so laced with secrets. What a vivid cast of characters!’ Rachel Hore However, Waiyaki soon faces the opposition of the elders of his tribe—particularly Kabonyi, who was once a follower of Joshua but later defected. Kabonyi considers himself to be the rightful leader of the people as he is older, and he also hates Waiyaki because he knows of the prophecy and fears that Waiyaki may be the chosen one.clitoridectomy. Therefore the abolition of the surgical element of this custom means to the Gikuyu the abolition of Awards: ALA Notable Books for Children (2004), ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2004), National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature (2003), Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (2004) Waiyaki obeys his father, and in the years after his father’s death, he builds a number of schools in Kameno. Many people are filled with a zealous desire for education and begin to admire Waiyaki as the savior who will enable the tribe to become independent and empowered. As for Waiyaki himself, he often feels that he is caught somewhere in the middle: while he is loyal to the tribe, he mostly desires unity and does not think everything the white man brings is evil.

itself as the cure and demands that the dependant sing hymns of praise with the constant refrain: “Theft is holy.” Yet soon after her arrival, Theo discovers a stash of hidden letters tied with a ribbon, untouched for more than a century. The letters – sent from the battlefields of France during WW1 – tell of a young servant from the nearby manor house, Abbotswood, and his love for a woman he was destined to lose. A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee And if that old river isn't ready to dry up yet, you can also bet that getting THE RIVER BETWEEN US into the hands of students will inspire some more of them to listen to their consciences and swim upstream, against those dark, treacherous currents of ignorance and fear.Winning a competitive eating contest is David’s only hope of avoiding being grounded for life after he does something stupid with his mother’s credit card.

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Waiyaki, the only son of Chege, a well-known and respected elder in Kameno, grows up in a time of tension between the tribes of the two ridges Kameno and Makuyu. Many areas of Kenya are experiencing the influx of the white man, and particularly the white man’s religion of Christianity. The major British figure in the area is Livingstone, who opened a notable mission school at Siriana. His most fervid convert is Joshua. Big brother Duane is off in boot camp, and Justin is left trying to hold the parental units together. Fat, acne-ridden, and missing his best friend Ben, who’s in the throes of his first boy-girl relationship with Cass, Justin’s world is dreary. It gets worse when he realizes that all of his mother’s suspicions about his father are probably true, and that Dad may not return from his latest business trip. Surprisingly ultra-cool Jemmie, who is also missing her best friend, Cass, actually recognizes his existence and her grandmother invites Justin to use their piano in the afternoons when Jemmie’s at cross-country practice. The “big nothing” place, where Justin retreats in time of trouble, is a rhythmic world and soon begins to include melody and provide Justin with a place to express himself. Practice and discipline accompany this gradual exploration of his talent. The impending war in Iraq gives this story a definite place in time, and its distinct characters make it satisfying and surprisingly realistic. Misfit finds fit. (Fiction. YA) My dad was what they called a self-made man. Though he'd succeeded in St. Louis, he'd come from a little town called Grand Tower on the other side of the Mississippi River down low in Illinois. This book contains a story within a story. The outer shell is the tale told by fifteen-year-old Howard Leland Hutchings who, in 1916, gets to travel 100 miles with his father in a Model T touring car to visit the father's ancestral home in Southern Illinois and meet his paternal grandparents, as well as his paternal great-aunt and great-uncle who also reside there.