The Martyr | Critical Overview
Ngugi has achieved international recognition as East Africa's leading novelist. His stories address the struggles of Africans in Kenya during the colonial and post-colonial eras. Critics have focused primarily on the political impetus in Ngugi's novels, stories, plays, and essays. G. D. Killam asserts, "Ngugi felt from the outset of his career as a writer that writing should serve social and political purposes.’’ Ngugi himself, in an introduction to the story collection Secret Lives, states that his writing is "an attempt to understand myself and my situation in society and...
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