Wanjiku, Child of Mine

"In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gikäyäu girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called Wanjikäu. On the busy city streets of Nairobi, where she goes to school, she is called by her English name, Catherine. But at home with Wangaräi, the maid who cooks and cares for her, she is again Wanjikäu. All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class, surrounded by friends from different cultural backgrounds. But at night, when she gathers with her fellow Gikäyäu sisters to speak her mother tongue, she is Wanjikäu once more."--Provided by publisher.