"The River Between" Quotes
A young man navigates cultural and religious conflicts in a Kenyan village divided by the arrival of British colonialism.
africa | 190 pages | Published in 1965
Quotes
The white man had come. He had brought the Book, and he had built the Mission, and the white man's religion had come with the Book.
But deep down in the heart, he knew that he loved this land and its people.
What had the white man come for, except to take away the land of the black man?
Tradition, custom, and religion sought to make them into a single people, but the white man had brought division.
The white man's religion was not always good.
The white man must go. He was like a man who came to a wedding feast uninvited. He was a thief who broke into a house and stole.
The white man had come, and brought with him a strange new god.
Perhaps, thought Waiyaki, the white man did not know what he was doing.
He would not allow the white man to take away his God-given land.
The white man had brought peace and order, but he had also brought death and destruction.
