Tag: kenyan literature

Book Review, Fiction, Kenyan Literature, Novel

The Promised Land by Grace Ogot

If you want to enjoy African literature, you have to accept African medicine and African magic as real.  Not as real in the sense of magical realism either, but as true.  I’ve been willing to do this so far, and was willing to continue doing so with Grace Ogot’s novel The Promised Land, but I wonder just how far most readers would go along. I wouldn’t be … Continue reading The Promised Land by Grace Ogot

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Book Review, Fantasy, Kenyan Literature, Novel

Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

I loved this book, but I’ve no idea where to begin or what to say about it. Fall back on plot summary, you say. Well…….. The Wizard of the Crow is about the probably crazed ruler of a fictional African nation, his underlings, their attempt to build a tower that will reach up to heaven called “Marching to Heaven,” and the ruler’s subsequent illness which … Continue reading Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

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