The River Between

When i left the rally last night, it gave me a deja vu feeling. Have been trying to recapture it ever since. And it was only till i started blogging it that i realized where it's from. A scene from one of my fave literature texts- The River Between, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The last scene actually. The good days when i got lost with Waiyaki, Nyambura, Joshua & Muthoni in midst of the African ridges. Putting it here only just in case my bad memory acts up and causes me to forget. heh.

The only gripe is that the story is birthed from the conflict between the "white man Christianity" and the traditions of the tribes, and inevitably paints Christianity in a tat of a shady light. The Christian effort to do away with female circumcision, the preacher dad going bersek when his daughter wanted to be initiated into the ways of the tribe as well, and the hero being a messianic figure taught in both ways trying to unite the two and ends up being a victim of circumstances. Who is the real Christian? Who displayed love? Was she wrong to be the African as her people are? Is there a real conflict between faith and traditions?

This is as far as my memory brings me. Will fill this up later after i find it for a re-read. Hopefully it's still around. Fingers crossed.