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Tshembe has returned home from Europe after seven years. He reunites with his younger brother Eric who is now a heavy-drinking, late teenager. Tshembe shares some surprising news about his new family in London. Eric is overjoyed to greet his older brother, who has come home following their father’s death. The two brothers discuss the struggle for independence.
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ERIC: Tshembe! You came!
TSHEMBE: Where is my father?
ERIC: He died last night.
TSHEMBE: So I missed the last goodbyes.
ERIC: Each day for a month I told him you would come and then last night he no longer believed.
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TSHEMBE: So did our mother! Do you despise her memory too? Have they finally turned the world upside down in your head, boy? Does Madame Neilsen know about my father?
ERIC: I thought that you would want to tell her.
Lorraine Hansberry. Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. 1972. pp.68-74
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