I have not read any Kenyan novel. This account is illuminating and encouraging to explore “East Africa’s leading novelist.” Sarah Jilani on Ngũgĩ’s vision
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51