Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Three directors of a brewery burn to death in Ilmorog, and four people are held: a teacher, a barmaid, a shopkeeper and a former freedom fighter. Each is interrogated, and each account reaches back years.

Ngũgĩ uses the murder investigation to put post-independence Kenya on trial — the drought march to the city, the new road that brings a tourist trade and destroys the village, the Mau Mau veterans who got nothing, and the Kenyans who simply replaced the colonists. He was detained without charge shortly after publication.

The novel that got its author imprisoned, and one of the essential works of African literature.

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