Overview
Region

East Africa

Kenya

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

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.

Literary Significance

Ngugi's last major novel in English before his commitment to writing in Gikuyu; his most politically explicit work

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