after so many years, I read the story again last night.....
wow.....
has anyone read it??
GQ< please download it from that thread i posted yesterday... and read it.. makes you feel sad for the guy, huh???

HB, HM.. Heru.. what you think??

he killed her... aye.. if only he had just LET GO.. move on....

so ladies and gentlemen... do you blame Kai for Killing Tene??

do you think it should have rather been Kema?
do you think his affections/attraction to Tene bordered on the incestous side??

da the whole book here so?

I read da ting on Cuttington for class assignment. wonderful piece. Coming downlaod and read again.

Nica you attended CUC also..? cool.

I have to read it again CG....remember just a little from it (dead body in the cassava patch under the trees?)....

Candy I just finished reading this. Very interesting story!

For me, because I'm not Liberian- I want to know more from you all how you look at this book. Sometimes as a woman I read a book written by a man and feel like his point of view isn't quite true...

So as a non- Liberian, to me his voice seems very true in writing-- does it strike you that way?

I felt so bad for him.

How did you look at Kema? WHY would she act like that? What was her reason for that? She wanted to be powerful? or What?

My 7th grade teacher knew how to romanticize the whole story.....in my little 12 year old mind, i just wanted that beautiful and luscious Tene......Every night , I saw her in my dream, i did not really feel too sorry for gortokai; after all, tene was my girl...

hahaha.... aye Paulay

good point VF. read this piece some time ago on 'Reading as a Woman' and thot abt it when i read yr post. i wonder how tene felt being 'marketed' in the name of culture and tradition. what was bai t. moore trying to put across as he takes no position-he only tells the story. why did gortokai want this woman who did not want him and felt he owned her based on money spent and his personal emotions? tene is a commodity here and her value is her youth and beauty. for example, when gortokai takes tene as a live-in partner, after she has the baby, it almost reads like he is doing her a favour; and she must behave-meaning no other men. tene does not have control-her sister is too greedy and her behaviour is reinforced by cultural practices.

tragic story but real...almost like today's liberia.

Here is the piece:

VF wrote:

Candy I just finished reading this. Very interesting story! For me, because I'm not Liberian- I want to know more from you all how you look at this book. Sometimes as a woman I read a book written by a man and feel like his point of view isn't quite true... So as a non- Liberian, to me his voice seems very true in writing-- does it strike you that way? I felt so bad for him. How did you look at Kema? WHY would she act like that? What was her reason for that? She wanted to be powerful? or What?

hey crazzy, i'm not seeing the link to the "reading as a woman" article... but it sounds interesting.

did gortokai think she deserved to be killed? or did he know it was wrong and yet was just pushed beyond his limit? do others think he was within his rights to kill her because of the way she betrayed him?

that sister kema-- i still don't know how to feel about her!