This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil.
This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in he...
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some follow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity, while others proudly pursue tribal independence.
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion a...
Here, Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this memoir describes the author's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included 24 children born to four different mothers.
Here, Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this memoir describe...
A grain of wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, making this novel one of stories within stories - a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta.
A grain of wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The action foll...
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs...
Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family must decide where their loyalties lie.
Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging wa...
'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times
'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and col...
