invokes Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s previous work, most obviously by introducing one of the novel’s main characters while she reads Devil on the Cross. This intertextual clue leads Gikandi to argue that “Wizard of the Crow is a repetition of Ngũgĩ’s later novels, especially Petals of Blood and [. . Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most. Wizard of the Crow is not Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s first political satire. In , he wrote a play lampooning Kenya’s dictator Daniel arap Moi, for which Ngugi was jailed and exiled. That personal history encourages reading Wizard as a parody of Moi’s despotic regime, but Ngugi’s satire is more universal in its sweep. It skewers the greed of those in power, from self-serving postcolonial dictators to .
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