Name: Professor: Course: Date of submission: The River Between by Ngugi Wa Thiongâo Ngugi wa Thiongâo is a prolific Kenyan writer whose works includes writing novels, short stories, plays, and essays which range from social criticism to writing children's literature(Gikandi 06). Ngugi is currently a Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and English at the University of California in Irvine. In his novel âThe River Betweenâ Ngugi develops a fiction portraying how the Kikuyu; a community in East Africa viewed the colonial war. He depicts the Mau Mau Rebellion, which involved a violent uprising by Kikuyu people against British colonialism an event that led the region into a...
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