The Black Hermit

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1963 CE · Play · East African · Contemporary

Remi, the first man of his people to finish university, has stayed in the capital with a white lover and a party post while the elders who paid for his education wait for the leader they bought. A delegation comes to fetch him back, and his dead brother's wife, married to him by custom, waits in the compound. The first play in English published by an East African.

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