Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Writing of Political Freedom

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's rewriting of stories in Secret Lives informs plotlines in A Grain of Wheat. I argue that while A Grain of Wheat attempts to model decolonial narrative sovereignty following Kenyan Independence, it unconsciously enters into identificatory dependency. I conclude that Ngũgĩ's literary career follows a trajectory to that tries to undo this creative bind.