Weep Not, ChildBy: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Series: Penguin Modern Classics Two small boys stand on a rubbish heap and look into the future. One boy is excited, he is beginning school; the other, his brother, is an apprentice carpenter. Together, they will serve their country the teacher and the craftsman. But this is colonial Kenya and times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and the two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau,