Mercy Slavia Didam

Ngugi wa Thiang’o and National-Consciousness: Re-Reading the Early and the Later Novels from a Postcolonial Perspective

The discourse of national-consciousness in African literature is so pertinent that early and contemporary African writers have “embraced” it with intense, artistic interest and literary enthusiasm. Consequently, in poetry, drama and the novel, critics and scholars have explored varying “faces” of national-consciousness...