• Sanjeev Kumar

The proposed research paper will undertake a study of Ngugi wa Thiong’O’s A Grain of Wheat (1967) with regard to the two revolutionary and historical movement Mau-Mau Revolt and the eight years of long Kenya Emergency (1952-1960) the reference to which are quite discernible and conspicuously found in Kenyan literature. Ngugi’s novels are a projection of socio-cultural, and ethnic disintegration of Gikuyu (Kenyan) society by domineering Western imperialistic forces and an attempt to recognise the identity and individuality for the indigenous people subverted by various means of colonial ideologies and politics. The term Gikuyu implies the race of people and the language in Kenya which provides the common basis for sharing emotion and sentiments of people. Disillusioned by the various form of allegiance as collaborators, cowards, betrayers and political opportunists to the colonial regime A Grain of Wheat addresses the collective revolutionary action taken by the young to ensure the cultural and political decolonisation. Ngugi’s novel irrevocably affirms and reinforces this through manifestation of political, social and cultural standpoint.

Mau-Mau, Cultural-decolonisation, Disintegration, Gikuyu, Domineering, Self-definition, Self-determination.

"Fragmenting and Disrupting Gikuyu Society: A Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’O’s A Grain of Wheat.1", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.272-281, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907795.pdf

"Fragmenting and Disrupting Gikuyu Society: A Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’O’s A Grain of Wheat.1", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp272-281, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907795.pdf