A Grain of Wheat
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A Grain of Wheat is the third and best-known novel written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya. It weaves several stories together during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence (1952-1959), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret. The plot revolves around his home village's preparations for Kenya's independence day celebration (Uhuru day). Former resistance fighters General R and Koinandu plan on publically executing the traitor who betrayed Kihika (a heroic resistance fighter hailing from the village) on that day.
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- But whom do we see in the motor cars and changing them daily as if motor cars were clothes, it was not those who took part in the Movement...some even outright traitors and collaborators.
- Gikonyo; unspecified edition, unspecified page
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gikonyo tells that he swore an oath while in detention to get out early and on his return home he finds that his wife bore child for another man and becomes upsetted by this an does not react. when he goes to the chief of the village he finds that his old friend has become chief and is now working for the whiteman an is also the father of his wifes child. gikonyo cannot get over the fact that mumbi went to someone else's bed and did not wait for his return in which she knew that he would have.
