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NGUGI WA THIONG O and his Mathe-logic of revolution in Matigari: Re-introducing militia struggle
Author(s) -
Afolayan Sola
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of english and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2141-2626
DOI - 10.5897/ijel2014.0618
Subject(s) - repetition (rhetorical device) , key (lock) , economic justice , sociology , history , literature , psychology , aesthetics , art , philosophy , law , political science , computer science , linguistics , computer security
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.

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