A Grain of Wheat

Analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o A Grain of Wheat

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 12, 2022

Following the shocked response in Britain to the author’s two first novels, Weep Not, Child (1964) and The River Between (1965), and in response to what he considered distorting revisions, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (then writing as James Ngugi) abandoned his master’s… Read More ›

African Novels and Novelists

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

The term “African,” when applied in this essay to the novel and other literary genres, does not include the Arab states of the north or the peoples of European descent who may have settled in Africa. It refers to the… Read More ›