Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Three directors of a Nairobi brewery are murdered. Four suspects recall their interconnected histories in neo-colonial Kenya, building a Marxist indictment of the African elite who inherited colonial exploitation.

A freedom fighter who buried his weapons after independence emerges from the forest to find Kenya's post-independence society as unjust as colonialism. The Kenyan government issued a warrant for Matigari's arrest, not realizing he was fictional.

Ngũgĩ's argument that the dismemberment of Africa — cultural, linguistic, psychological — requires a counter-practice of 're-membering' through African languages and pan-Africanism.