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Part I: Wiping your Tears Away, Pages 1 - 16

· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Matigari. Translated from Gĩkũyũ by Wangũi wa Goro. Africa World Press, 1998. Originally published by Heinemann International, 1989.

· Part I: Wiping your Tears Away begins on page 3.

· A middle-aged man holding an AK-47 stares across a river.

· As a horse with no rider passes him, he thinks of Settler Williams and his friends hunting foxes.

· Whichever rider got the first fox would “cut off its tail in triumph...[and then] smear the blood of the fox on the face of a woman” (3).

· The man hopes that “the last of the colonial problems had disappeared with the descent of Settler Williams into hell” (3).

· The man finds a mugumo, or fig tree, and begins digging around the root with his sword.

· He places his...

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