The Black Hermit (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A Kenyan village and Nairobi
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Drama, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Class conflict, Politics, Colonialism, Religion, City life, Politicians, Corruption
- Locales: Nairobi, Kenya
Characters Discussed
Remi (RAY-mee), a youth of the Maura tribe who is sent to the city to attend the university and return to his village as a political and social leader for his people in the government of a newly independent country. As a student activist, he has convinced his small tribe to support the Africanist Party, which now governs. He has stayed on in the city as a clerk in an oil company rather than returning to his village, as was expected. Before his departure from home, his father and the elders of the village prevailed upon him to marry the widow of his brother,...
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