Kumalo

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: The character Stephen Kumalo is an elderly Zulu priest who has spent all his life in the village of Nodtshen. “I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering [….]so in my suffering I can believe” (Paton pg. 212). In the beginning of the novel Kumalo was unexperienced, faithful, and naïve in the way Jonesburg worked, he saw everything black and white. Kumalo knew there was sorrows in life, however he would have never thought that his faith would be shaken with the amount of trouble thrown in his path.

Middle: It was not until all his troubled and sorrows that he became more aware of what lied beyond Nodtshen. “, it is a hard word to say. But my heart holds a deep sorrow for you, and for the inkosikazi, and for the young
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