Matigari By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Matigari By Ngugi wa Thiong'o Details

Who Is Matigari? Is he young or old; a man or fate; dead or living...or resurrection of Jesus Christ? These are the questions asked by the people of this unnamed country. when a man who has survived the war of independence emerges from the mountains and starts making strange claims and demands. Matigari is in search of his family, to rebuild his home and start a new and peaceful future, but his search becomes a quest for truth and justice as he finds the people still dispossessed and the land he loves ruled by corruption, fear and misery. 

Lyrical and hilarious in turn, Matigarl, which was first published in Gikuyu as Matigari ma Njiruungl, Is a memorable satire on the betrayal of human ideals and on the bitter experience of post-independence African society.