Overview
Region
East Africa
Kenya
Era
Contemporary
Language
Gikuyu
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
Written in Gikuyu as part of Ngugi's project to reclaim African languages; the Kenyan government suppressed both Gikuyu and English editions