MatigariA moral fable in which Martigari, a freedom fighter, emerges from the forest in the political dawn of post-independence Kenya. Searching for his family and a new future, he finds little has changed. |
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User Review - GlebtheDancer - LibraryThingMatigari is about a freedom fighter who returns from the wilderness after laying his weapons aside at the end of the wars of independence in his unnamed country. He returns to find the government ... Read full review
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User Review - kidzdoc - LibraryThingIn the preface to this novel, Ngũgĩ informs us that Matigari was written in 1983, while he was living in exile in London. It was published in the Gĩkũyũ language in 1986, and translated into English ... Read full review
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Matigari Ngug ̃ı wa Thiongʾo,Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Snippet view - 1989 |
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