Penguin African Writers The River Between, Book 4, (Paperback)

from whitewavedarling

Solid and urgent, this is one of those novels that seems both timeless and utterly contemporary. Toward the end, some of the more sentimental sections of the novel are somewhat overwritten, but the book as a whole is a meditation on unification, personal belief, and confidence. The characters and...

from TadAD

This is the story of a valley in Kenya, the ridge of Kameno on one side and the Makuyu ridge on the other. On Kamenu lived the members of Gikuyu who believed strongly in traditional practices; on Makuyu lived the members who had converted to Christianity and embraced the ways of the white settler...

from amerynth

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's short novel "The River Between" is a wonderful look at what happens when old and new traditions clash and divide a society. Set in Kenya, it portray the Gikuyu and its leaders as they come of age in a time when missionaries were changing the landscape by converting portions th...

from BBcummings

An excellent description of the typical dilemma African culture has facedsince the introduction of Christianity, and the divisions it caused during the time when colonialism became fully entrenched. The challenge of cultural development is still relevant today, and this book is a good start in in...

from kidzdoc

This short novel is set in colonial Kenya, in an isolated region where two rival populations each live on a ridge separated by a river that nourishes-and erodes-the land of both communities. One community is mainly Christian, led by a local man who has embraced the colonialists' religion and reje...