A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Set in the days leading up to Kenya's independence in 1963, the novel follows several villagers whose pasts during the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule contain buried acts of betrayal, complicity and sacrifice that Independence Day forces uncomfortably back into the open.

Ngũgĩ, one of Africa's most important postcolonial writers, refuses a simple heroic narrative of the independence struggle, instead examining the genuine moral compromises ordinary people made under colonial violence, in a foundational text of African literature grappling honestly with a complicated liberation history.

A landmark of African literature, examining the moral complexities of Kenya's independence struggle.

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