A Grain of Wheat
Four days before Kenya's independence celebrations a village hunts for whoever betrayed its hanged Mau Mau leader, and settles on the silent, admired Mugo to give the Uhuru speech. A carpenter back from detention finds a child in his house, and each account of the Emergency contradicts the one before. Built on the shifting confessions of Conrad's Under Western Eyes.
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- influenced by ↑ Under Western Eyes
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