Abstract
Wizard of the Crow (2007) is important in Ngugi's oeuvre because it signifies a departure from his earlier political positions. Not only did the novel come out after two decades or so of inactivity in his novelistic production since Matigari (1988), it was also initially composed in Gikuyu as Murogi wa Kagogo twenty years after Ngugi bade his famed 'farewell to English.' This sprawling 776-page magnum opus (published in Gikuyu in three installments totaling 892 pages) is probably the longest piece of prose in sub-Saharan Africa to be composed and published in an indigenous language.
Highlights
Even though the poetic medium of the novel is a European invention of the eighteenth century1, its appropriation by modern African writers is stupendous
The novel, more than drama and poetry, has come to be the most pervasive medium employed by African writers to interrogate, probe, question, and criticize the social, political, economic, and religious deeds of people
In reality democracy is never allowed to operate in the Free Republic of Aburiria because it is against the grand design of the Ruler
Summary
Wizard of the Crow (2007) is important in Ngugi’s oeuvre because it signifies a departure from his earlier political positions. Did the novel come out after about two decades of inactivity in his novelistic production since Matigari (1988), it was initially composed in Gikuyu as Murogi wa Kagogo twenty years after Ngugi said his famed “farewell to English.” This sprawling 776-page magnum opus (published in Gikuyu in three installments totaling 892 pages) is probably the longest piece of prose in sub-Saharan Africa to be composed and published in an indigenous language
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