MATIGARI (African Writers Series) - Hardcover

Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435906542 ISBN 13: 9780435906542

Publisher: Heinemann, 1989

Synopsis

A moral fable in which Martigari, a freedom fighter, emerges from the forest in the political dawn of post-independence Kenya. Searching for his family and a new future, he finds little has changed.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Ngugi wa Thiong'o has succeeded in creating a fascinating and revolutionary concept of genre... Matigari is both a novel at the same time as it is an oral narrative performance. [Matigari] is likewise equally a hagiography as it is a myth." - Lewis Nkosi

"Soon after Matigari's publication, its hero was mistaken by the paranoid, dictatorial government of Kenya as a revolutionary agitator plotting to overthrow the government, which promptly issued a warrant for his arrest! When the ensuing extensive search across the country finally revealed that Matigari was only a fictional hero, the book which had given birth to this phantom, this Matigari ... was immediately confiscated and banned from circulation." - F. Odun Balogun

About the Author:

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is currently a professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0435906542
• ISBN 13: 9780435906542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186