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Matigari: A Novel - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Matigari: A Novel
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4.50 10
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780865439993 (0865439990)
Publisher: Africa World Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature, Cultural, Africa, 20th Century, African Literature, Kenya
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Rowena's Reviews
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4.5 Matigari
text Matigari
“Where can a person girded with a belt of peace find truth and justice in this world?”- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Matigari The story takes place in a newly-independent Kenya. Like in other recently independent countries, their former masters still have a very strong presence and much control. Matigari ma N...
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Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it
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To the common reader Ngugi's Matigari sounds like a naive, almost quaint sort of fable. But those who have studied the history of colonial Kenya, particularly the Mau Mau rebellion and it suppression by British Authorities, will recognize a bitter critique of post-colonial Kenya from the viewpoint o...
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