Assignment Name: Rupa Bambhaniya Paper No: 14 The African literature Enrollment no: 2069108420200002 Class: M.A sem 4 Submitted by: Smt.S.B.Gardhi, Department of English Email I'd: rupabambhniya166@gmail.com Ngugi Wa Thiongo , A Grain of Wheat “A Grain of Wheat Is complex, powerful novel exploring the psychology of a hauntedman – haunted by an act of treachery to a hero of Kenya’s freedom movement.” Introduction : Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He is also Honorary Member of American Academy of Letters. A many-sided intellectual, he is novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist. The Kenya of his birth and youth was a British settler colony (1895-1963). As an adolescent, he lived thro...