East Africa
Kenya
Contemporary
English
Fiction
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.
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Ngugi's last major novel in English before his commitment to writing in Gikuyu; his most politically explicit work
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editorial-summarynot primary textThree 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. Ngugi's last major novel in English before his commitment to writing in Gikuyu; his most politically explicit work
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