Dec 18, 2009

Petals of Blood | What Do I Read Next?

The novels Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960) by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe depict Nigeria's experience with colonialism, from first contact with the British to the 1950s.

The West Indian poet Derek Walcott, from whose poem "Swamp" Ngugi takes the title of his novel, discusses the conflict between his loyalties to Africa and to Britain in his poem "A Far Cry from Africa’’ (1990).

In Ngugi's novel The River Between (1965), Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and create a rift between two...