This book focuses on one of Africa's major novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who depicts and analyses many of the tensions associated with the colonization of East Africa by Europeans. A recipient
of a Christianized education in Kenya, Ngugui became highly knowledgeable of both the Old and New Testament Scriptures and of inconsistencies between the policies of foreign-controlled imperial
administrations and their lip-service to Christian beliefs. Ngugi's grievances with the Western world in its dealings with East Africa focus on three major issues: cultural intrusion, political
domination, and economic exploitation. The chronological unfolding of these sequential matters is vividly portrayed in his novels.
