Peter Kimani is an award-winning Kenyan author and journalist. He works in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays. His latest novel, Dance of the Jakaranda, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice.One of his top ten books about Kenya, as shared at the Guardian:
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’oRead about the other entries on the list.
The last of his foundational trilogy on culture and society – the others are Weep Not, Child, and The River Between – this novel evaluated what political independence heralded forordinary citizens in the early 60s. Mugo is a hermit whom locals mistake for a freedom hero, but who is privately burdened by other troubles, and his unravelling signals the denouement of one of Ngugi’s finest novels.
A Grain of Wheat is among Pushpinder Khaneka's three best books on Kenya.
--Marshal Zeringue
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