ShalayeFC: The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

​Join us for a close reading and discussion of The River Between, a classic 1965 novel by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, tracing the deep ideological divide between two neighboring Kenyan villages during the early years of British colonialism.

​Together, we will reflect on tradition and progress as competing forces shaped by what is preserved, abandoned, resisted, and reimagined, as we consider what it means to heal a divided community torn between an ancient ancestral past and an encroaching modern world.