A most valuable little study of the problems and frustrations of the Kikuyu people in Kenya, about whom the author probably knows more than any living white man. A son of missionaries, he was born and ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a towering figure in African literature, has left an indelible mark on the literary world with his profound insights into the complexities of culture, identity, and colonialism.

He studied fossil bones, stone artifacts and cave paintings. He published monographs on the social customs of the Kikuyu people of Kenya and the string figures, comparable to cat’s cradles ...

But, in a country whose electorate has long voted on ethnic lines and for established political dynasties, it came as a shock to his political heirs when the Kikuyu people in Kenyatta’s home ...