Digesting Crow: Reading and Teaching Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow

While Wizard of the Crow is about corruption and tyranny in Kenya, the novel's lessons and satire apply to many African countries. Because the majority of the students in my classes confess they have watched movies such as Blood Diamond and Hotel Rwanda, they have had a visual and visceral intr...

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Published in:Research in African literatures 2011-12, Vol.42 (4), p.8-19
Main Author: Slaymaker, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African history
African literature
African studies
Books and reading
Editing
Essays
Keresiouan languages
literary studies
Literature
Motion pictures
Narratives
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Pedagogy
Political corruption
Postcolonialism
Reading
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
Tyranny
Violence
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Summary:While Wizard of the Crow is about corruption and tyranny in Kenya, the novel's lessons and satire apply to many African countries. Because the majority of the students in my classes confess they have watched movies such as Blood Diamond and Hotel Rwanda, they have had a visual and visceral introduction to human tragedy in various African countries about which they know little. [...] it is important that the instructor make judicious editorial cuts in order to make Ngugi's novel interesting and instructive.
ISSN:0034-5210
1527-2044
DOI:10.2979/reseafrilite.42.4.8