This book's epigraph cites First Corinthians, and argues "that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die." In its eleventh chapter, Mrs. Dickinson predicts a coming holocaust during the farewell party for John Thompson, whose final words are 
This book's epigraph cites First Corinthians, and argues "that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die." In its eleventh chapter, Mrs. Dickinson predicts a coming holocaust during the farewell party for John Thompson, whose final words are "eliminate the vermin." Set in the village of Thabai, this novel ends with Gikonyo reuniting with Mumbi, and shares similar subject matter to its author's earlier novel The River Between. Its main conflict results from the slaying of the brutal District Officer Tom Robson by Kihika, a resistance leader who is hanged after being betrayed to the British by Mugo. Written after its author's conversion to the Marxist ideas of Franz Fanon, FTP, name this novel set during the Mau Mau Rebellion by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
This book's epigraph cites First Corinthians, and argues "that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.
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