Devil on the Cross

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1980 CE · Novel · East African · Contemporary

Wariinga, sacked from her Nairobi job for refusing her employer, takes a matatu back to Ilmorog and finds herself carried to a cave where thieves compete before foreign judges for the national championship in modern theft. The Gikuyu storyteller narrating has been ordered by the mothers of the country to break his silence. Written on toilet paper in Kamiti prison, the first modern novel in Gikuyu.

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