Demystifying the Future in Africa’s (Un)vanishing Past: A Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Novels

In the hands of the missionary arm of the colonialists and the ruling elite after independence, it is a weapon to blunt the people’s consciousness of their condition of being. [...] These are further illuminated in the analyses of Matigari and Wizard of the Crow, two novels in which the author uniquely presents in an epical style, the intersection of the past and the present in the re-making of Africa. [...] Though the present struggle being waged in the novel is a carry-over from the past (colonial days), it is also a battle for the future as the resolution of the conflict has a wide implication for the parties –the power- ful and the dispossessed. [...] The Global Bank is invited to the country to assess the feasibility of the project as part of efforts to convince the bank officials to grant the loan. [...] 2, 2016 From the patterns of conflicts in the two novels, which feature conflicts between the forces of oppression and the dispossessed, Ngugi contends that to effectively tackle the problems of economic injustice and political instability, there is the need to re-define the nature, structure and function of the State in a way that will guarantee access of the majority to its resources.