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Galileo as a Part of Ngugi Wa Thiong’s essay “Freedom of the Artist” Ramanjot Kaur Medicine Hat College ENG252 Dr. Navneet Kumar December 1, 2017 “Art for art’s sake view sets the artist free, and enables them to be more creative in art, it helps their piece of art being purified from the restricted doctrines of ordinary life. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o was one of the important follower of “Art for art’s sake” view. Ngugi in his essay aspires to make artists conscious about their important

Introduction The novel Weep Not, Child by Ngugi was Thiongio will be explored in this paper. The novel unfolds a tale of a young boy, Njoronge, growing up in the rime of the Mau Mau insurgency that swept away Kenya in the fifties and early sixties. The novel reveals a metamorphosis of Kenya through political, social and cultural conflict lens in the 1952- 1960. By folding different generations of storytelling with each character of the book, Weep Not, Child becomes alive with vivacity. It gives

II: In this section Ngugi speaks about how the English- an imperialistic language that belongs to Europe dominates the local languages in the post-colonial Africa. He asks to the reader that how did people become to be so feeble towards the claims of their languages on them and so aggressive in their claims on other languages, particularly the languages of their colonization. It is worth mentioning the words spoken by Chinua Achebe, “is it right that a man should abandon his mother language for some

When it comes to the realty of violence, Thiong’o’s novel tells a political satire of newly Independent Kenya – the unnamed newly independent state- that helps us to examine the unexpected reality of decolonization within Africa. The Satire is strikingly familiar to the Political satire of George Orwell who wrote the legendary political satire about the Russian revolution, The Animal Farm. Matigari tells the story of a young liberation fighter who believed in the freedom he fought for, but instead

In the novel The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o expresses a strong moderate nationalist sentiment displayed in various ways. The subject of this novel, is a meaningful portrayal of how the theme of colonization is at the heart of most African literature written in English. The River Between was Ngugi’s first work to be published in his own language, Gikuyu and then translated into English. His radical shift from the use of the European languages to the use of an indigenous African language

Unlike postcolonial writers, Ngugi in his novel deliberately includes a colonizer voice. However, the colonizers are unattractive voice, but Ngugi suggests some understanding of the principles behind colonialism, and the disillusionment with its failure. Clearly, the main voice of the colonizer of the novel, John Thompson. The ideals of Thompson are based on harsh racial superiority, outlined in his work for Prospero in Africa, in his notes, Thompson attempts to present good image that British colonizer

independence, Kenya sought to become its own independent state. Famous African author, Ngugi wa Thiong 'o depicts A Grain of Wheat, a story of characters living during this time, to focus on the theme of fear throughout the novel. Having being born during colonial times, Ngugi wa Thiong 'o is able to mesh some of his experiences during that time in order to create a life-like imagination for the reader (Ngugi wa Thiong’o 376). In A Grain of Wheat, we follow the lives of Mugo, a lonesome man whose

Waiyaki is a young man who tackles the responsibility of mending the two ridges of Makuyu and Kameno that separated because of the religious of Christianity. The River Between, written by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, captures the ramifications of the white men religions and its effects on the two mountain ridges, that is separated by the Honia river, while the story surrounds around Waiyaki as he blossoms. In the story, Waiyaki, also known as The Teacher, is a strong, gallant young man that believes in the

The novel A River Between was written by Ngugi wa Thiong 'o. It is a fictional story about the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya during the 1920 's. During this time in Africa and in the recent past colonial powers had secured a presence in a lot of Afican countries. These powers over time had drove a wedge between African tribes for various reasons. In the novel the Kikuyu are dealing with this divison among its people. They are split between two groups tribal tradtionalist the Kameno and the recently converted

” When reading “Decolonizing the Mind” was published by an African author named, Ngugi wa Thiog’o”. He takes an interesting approach on how he captures his audiences’ attention, he does this by showing the impact of simply changing ones language can have on a community as a whole. Ngugi uses various forms of Ethos, Pathos, as well as Logos; he does an amazing job of organizing the reading from the start to end. Ngugi starts to talk about the