Dec 16, 2009

I Will Marry When I Want | I Will Marry When I Want

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Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Mirii
First Published: 1980
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The mid-1970’s
Setting: Kenya
Genres: Social realism, Drama, Postcolonial literature
Subjects: 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Power, personal or social, Betrayal, Poverty or poor people, Polygamy or bigamy, Illegitimacy, Corruption
Locales: Kenya

Characters Discussed

Kiguunda (kee-gew-EWN-dah), a farm laborer and smallholder of one and one-half acres in postcolonial Kenya. Although his efforts as a Mau Mau guerrilla on behalf of independence have been followed by a life of labor and hardship, he is a proud man. When his employer, Kioi, and others visit him in his one-room, mud-walled home to convert him to Christianity and insist that he “marry” his wife of many years, he takes his sword from the wall and drives them out. Later, believing that their motive was to legitimize a marriage between his daughter Gathoni...

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I Will Marry When I Want | I Will Marry When I Want

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