Wambui is a notable village elder who also tries to convince Mugo to lead. Wambui is good friends with Warui and has also participated in the fight for freedom for her entire life. As a young woman and even as an old woman, Wambui collaborates with the Mau Mau, smuggling messages and weapons to them in the forest. Wambui serves to demonstrate and tell of the power of women to act and succeed where men have failed, especially in times of revolution, believing that many of their achievements could not have been made without the essential help of women. Like Warui, Wambui is disappointed both by Mugo’s confession and by Uhuru, seemingly disenchanted with life after all her long, hard years of struggle.
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[Wambui] believed in the power of women to influence events, especially where men had failed to act, or seemed indecisive […] Let therefore such men, she jeered, come forward, wear the women’s skirts and aprons and give up their trousers to the women.
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Wambui Quotes in A Grain of Wheat
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Chapter 13
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[Wambui] believed in the power of women to influence events, especially where men had failed to act, or seemed indecisive […] Let therefore such men, she jeered, come forward, wear the women’s skirts and aprons and give up their trousers to the women.
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