num_pages: 218
description: This book focuses on one of Africa's major novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who depicts and analyses many of the tensions associated with the colonization of East Africa by Europeans. A recipient of a Christianized education in Kenya, Ngugui became highly knowledgeable of both the Old and New Testament Scriptures and of inconsistencies between the policies of foreign-controlled imperial administrations and their lip-service to Christian beliefs. Ngugi's grievances with the Western world in its dealings with East Africa focus on three major cultural intrusion, political domination, and economic exploitation. The chronological unfolding of these sequential matters is vividly portrayed in his novels.
language: English
title: The Kenyan Epic Novelist Ngugi: His Secular Reconfiguration of Biblical Themes
titlecomplete: The Kenyan Epic Novelist Ngugi: His Secular Reconfiguration of Biblical Themes
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr