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Jomo Kenyatta
The carpenter to whom Kamau is apprenticed. Nganga is a rich man who Kamau believes is taking advantage of his apprenticeship by forcing him to do grunt work that teaches him nothing. However, Kamau changes this opinion when Nganga allows his family to build huts on his land after Jacobo forces them out of their homes. Unfortunately, Nganga is later kidnapped and killed—along with the barber—in the middle of the night, and no one knows whether the white settlers or the Mau Mau are behind the act.
Nganga Quotes in Weep Not, Child
The Weep Not, Child quotes below are all either spoken by Nganga or refer to Nganga. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“Blackness is not all that makes a man,” Kamau said bitterly. “There are some people, be they black or white, who don’t want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what’s wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people. A rich man does not want others to get rich because he wants to be the only man with wealth.”
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Nganga Quotes in Weep Not, Child
The Weep Not, Child quotes below are all either spoken by Nganga or refer to Nganga. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
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“Blackness is not all that makes a man,” Kamau said bitterly. “There are some people, be they black or white, who don’t want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what’s wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people. A rich man does not want others to get rich because he wants to be the only man with wealth.”
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