A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o • 1967
Devastation Rating
Kenya colonialism independence betrayal
Our Take
Kenyan independence arrives and someone in the village is the informer who betrayed Kihika to the British. Ngũgĩ circles the question across multiple perspectives — the betrayal is revealed, the reasons are understood, the liberation is incomplete. The wheat grows from the martyr's body and that is not comfort.
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