English

Abstract

I once heard a story being told to my children by one of my sisters. The story, so simple, is of a man who has an incurable wound and is in search of a cure. He is told of a medicine man whose name is Ndiiro, but he does not know the way to Ndiiro's place. He encounters different people and asks each one of them the way to Ndiiro's. The story depends on a repetition of the song that describes Ndiiro. I used the same structure in the construction of Matigari, the story of a wanderer in search of social justice in a postcolonial society (Ngugi, 1998).   Key words: Ngugi Wa Thiong, Mathe-logic, post(neo)colonial society.