Book Review: Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance by Amitayu Chakraborty

An Anglophone African writer and polemical ideologue whose work has become a model for neocolonial contexts, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is revisited by Amitayu Chakraborty in the context of his homeland’s shifting political landscape. This book highlights Ngugi’s fictional work as a key contribution to postcolonial studies. According to the author, Ngugi’s work employs ethnosymbolic elements to challenge the institutionalized histories by highlighting the politics of ethnicity, nationalism, and elitist discourses. The book focuses on key works by Ngugi that bridge historical, anthropological, and literary studies in the context of Kenyan nationhood.