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Weep not child was fantastic

The black hermit author.... Rest in peace sir

We read his works back in secondary school. Rest in peace great man. What of Nyengi Koin?

Two of his books i read
1. Weep not child
2. Mercedes Funeral.
Rest in eternal bliss to one of the great Africans who taught us on how to read and study.

Author my favorite book, the river between

Africa has lost a literary giant.
I remember being absorbed with his Novel entitled, Weep not child.

Rest on prof Ngugi wo"thiongo!!
Trial of dedan kimathi
I will marry when I want
As a theatre arts graduate, your plays played a vocal role in our courses of Theatre history ,Theory and criticism . You raised the revolutionary aesthetics in us.
Your plays made us voracious readers and prolific writers but Nigeria led us astray to be looking for money.. rest on prof Ngugi wo"thiongo, weep not child !!!!!

fergie001:
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Rest on, one of Africa's literary colossus.

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Oh my God! Memories.

"Weep not, child. Weep not, my darling. With these words, hope will return to your heart."

Rest on Sir.

You touched many students internationally with your literature

fergie001:
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Weep not, Child
The River Between
Petals of Blood
Devil on a Cross

Read them all.

RIP, Prof....

Angelfrost:
Yeah... Soyinka is among the last of the old guard of brilliant and gifted writers.

I fear this generation might never live up to their golden standard.

To make matters worse, the reading culture is fast fizzling out.

We still have Amanda Adichie
Helon Habila
and several other young writers but there'll never be ones like this author who just passed on and Chinua Achebe
Cyprian Ekwensi
Kalu Okpi
Buchanan Emecheta
Flora Nwapa
To name a few.
These were the days you impress a babe with your literary collection. If you have some MacMillan Pacesetters, Hardley Chase and Mills and Boon...
You've captured her heart already.

Creamypie:
Eyaaaaaa. Rest well sir. On a second note, if you haven't read forest of a thousand daemons by DD fagunwa and translated or edited by wole Soyinka,more than 40 years ago, pls do so now. Soyinka no be just human being

Soyinka is overrated

colossus91:
Soyinka is overrated

he's not a human. You no dey read book. Na Facebook, tik tom, Snapchat, Instagram, etc Una know

Weep not child.. these are the real literature giants not one bear bear gbajue prof

The Pen That Refused to Kneel

Ngũgĩ is gone? No, Ngũgĩ transformed.
He slipped into the soul of the storm.
The jailer broke locks, not his will;
His pen still walks the hills of Limuru.

He spat in the mouth of Empire’s lie,
Wrote in the tongue they told him to deny.
Each word a machete, each verse a flame,
He carved out truth and signed his name.

Now the earth wears mourning like a crown,
As a lion sleeps, but not bows down.
His voice now thunder in every tongue;
Ngũgĩ lives, though the body is gone.

Rest On...Prof..

Weep Not Child...my favorite novel...

Jacobo and his Dreamer Son Njoroge...

Mhenn..this boy suffer for love ❤ till the end and got NOTHING... fear Gials 😨

An exit

Weep not Africa....Adieu to an African icon.

I think this man wrote the beautiful ones are not yet born if I remember correctly
Funny though three phrase is common but most don't know it's a book title

I like weep not child
Njoroge and mwihaki

colossus91:
Soyinka is overrated

Hmmm
Learn to keep politics apart from intellectual works

Angelfrost:
Yeah... Soyinka is among the last of the old guard of brilliant and gifted writers.

I fear this generation might never live up to their golden standard.

To make matters worse, the reading culture is fast fizzling out.

This generation will generate their novel using AI. No need for human writing with their intellectual skills. AI ti take over.

Gen Z.....YeYe generation!

hatchy:
This generation will generate their novel using AI. No need for human writing with their intellectual skills. AI ti take over.

Gen Z.....YeYe generation!

It's a real shame...!

The art of good writing and artful conversations gone down the drain.

Ngugi!!!

My favourite African Writer.

RIP

AngelahFlo:
We still have Amanda Adichie
Helon Habila
and several other young writers but there'll never be ones like this author who just passed on and Chinua Achebe
Cyprian Ekwensi
Kalu Okpi
Buchanan Emecheta
Flora Nwapa
To name a few.
These were the days you impress a babe with your literary collection. If you have some MacMillan Pacesetters, Hardley Chase and Mills and Boon...
You've captured her heart already.

Yeah... Good old days.

Social media is taking intellectual conversations down the drain.

Rest on great man.

Oh, dear Nguigi. May his memory be a blessing!

Read an article about the great man a year ago. By then, he was elderly, and sorta struggling. While physcially in good shape, he had had some health issues in the recent past then. And sadly he had separated from his wife.

And now he is dead.

His books Weep not child, and The River Between had a lot of impact on me as a teenager. Taught me a lot about the Kenyan independence struggle without the dryness of a history book.

ayyoshert:
Two of his books i read
1. Weep not child
2. Mercedes Funeral.
Rest in eternal bliss to one of the great Africans who taught us on how to read and study.

I added "African Child" by Camara Laye to the mix.

Metrofox:
Weep not child.. these are the real literature giants not one bear bear gbajue prof

Yeah, you guys don't like Soyinka because 'he opposed GEJ' and 'supported tinubu' (I kind of was sad to hear about his backing the tinubu )....but he still writes great stuff.

Chinua Achebe was more prolific re novel writing, but Soyinka did a lot more plays and poetry (The Lion and the Jewel and the Jero plays are good examples).

But seriously, drop the politics. Tinubu and GEJ were laughing together after the 2023 election. You their partisans are still fighting each other.