East Africa
Kenya
Contemporary
Gikuyu
Fiction
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.
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Written in Gikuyu as part of Ngugi's project to reclaim African languages; the Kenyan government suppressed both Gikuyu and English editions
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editorial-summarynot primary textA 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. Written in Gikuyu as part of Ngugi's project to reclaim African languages; the Kenyan government suppressed both Gikuyu and English editions
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