"A Grain Of Wheat" by Ngugi Wa Thiongo

                    A Grain Of Wheat

          Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o  born 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan writer, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri.

          The novel “A Grain Of Wheat’ written by Ngugi Wa thiongo. A novel is a combination of socio-psycho-cultural changes. And also we can see something is happened but people don’t know because the unconfused event. The novel is about the freedom. It’s covered the time of pre-colonialism to the post-colonialism and neo-colonialism. Also we can see the past-present-future through the characters how can we imagination to the future of characters like the character of Mugo. His past was very fragmented mugo was very normal human being. And form his childhood he was alone . however, also other characters like the Mumbi. Mumbi has a wife of Gikonyo and mother of Karnja’s child.  Karnja was an police officer. Her past like that. The coral between husband and wife. Mumbi says,

“you catch me if you can”

          Maumau emergency in A Grain Of Wheat presented for the first time an African perspective on the Kenyan armed revolt against British colonial rule during the 1950s.

          A Grain Of Wheat marked Ngugi’s break with cultural nationalism and his embarking of fanonist Marxism.In the novel ‘A Grain Of Wheat’ there are three movement in the novel like,

1)           Freedom

2)          Heroism of Mugo

3)           Revival of Kihika

        However, also we can see the pressure of colonialism. It is the allegorical story of one man’s mistaken heroism and a search for the betrayer of a MAUMAU leader.

        Ngugi Wa Thiongo portrayed the disruption of KIKAYA society. As a result of the invasive pressure of colonialism here, we can see so many people died in nation.

       The novel ‘ A Grain Of Wheat’ it is a political narrative and the political discourse the novel ending social the novel ending with positive way.

       The novel looks like the mask of grace. The novel is a collective act of recalling and reflecting on the events leading to Uhuru , in order in a understood what actual meaning it should be the Thabai peasant. A Grain Of Wheat constructs a narration of the nation. And the destroyed the common man life.

       The novel  ‘A Grain Of Wheat’ the village of Kenya . Kenya is the country of black people. In this novel we can see there are many issue but Ngugi Wa Thiongo not only focus on the other issue but they only focuses on native issue.