DISCUSSION ON COLONIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE OF KENYA IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S A GRAIN OF WHEAT

is not a thing of past, it is current economic reality said Celine Semaan. Colonialism is ultimately an immoral and oppressive practice. British Colonialism affected Kenya politically, socially and economically. Kenya experienced changes after being colonized by Europeans. The British colonists and Kenyan freedom fighters opposing futures for Kenya. The Mau Mau fighters from Thabai seek to push the whiteman '' completely out of Kenya. Both colonizer and colonized worked for their own country. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, himself a native Kenyan talks about his own country's struggle for freedom and Independence from Britain in his novel 'A Grain of Wheat'. The whole novel takes place before and on days of Uhuru. Kenyans against colonial rule in Kenya. On December 12, 1963, Kenya declared its independence from Britain. After their Independence all kenyans get their land back and can express their voice freely. Here I have discussed Colonialism and independence of Kenya in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat.