Extrinsic elements of A Grain of Wheat - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1. A GRAIN OF WHEAT
EXTRINSIC ELEMENTS

2. A GRAIN OF WHEAT
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LIFE OF THE AUTHOR
SOCIAL SETTINGS
HOW THE AUTHOR GROWS

3. LIFE OF THE AUTHOR
• Ngugi wa Thiong’o original name James Thiong’o Ngugi. East Africa’s lea
ding novelist.
• Ngugi received bachelor’s degrees from Makerere University kampala ,
Uganda in 1963
• He pursued a second bachelor’s degree at Leeds University in England.
• He eventually became a professor of English.
• After graduate he become a lecturer in english university College, Nairobi
, Kenya.
• Ngugi argued for African-language literature as the only authentic voice.
• In 2004 he moves to kenya with his wife and promote his books.
• Win a nobel prize for literature and also became distinguished professor
at university California.

4. HOW THE WRITER GROWS
• Ngugi came from a large, polygamous family, a family of five wives. His
mother was the fifth wife of his father.
• Ngugi’s life was caught up in the end of the world war II and in the anti-c
olonial fight.
• Ngugi’s childhood was not the happy one as half of his brothers are fighti
ng for the land war and the other half is fighting for British.
• His father was forced to be a laborer in his own farm and his mother was
tortured.
• At the age of 14, a war was happened, a war of Mau Mau or Mau Mau R
ebellion. It lasted for 10 years (1952-1962).
• The grain of wheat uses the setting of the Mau Mau war as its backgroun
d.
• The grain of wheat also reveals the mixture of pride, hope, disillusionmen
t and foreboding that has characterized political discourse in South Africa

5. SOCIAL SETTINGS
1. Family Background. (The brothers)
2. Complicated Characterization of Mugo, Gikonyo, and Karanja (Effect of
Colonialism)
3. Name Changing

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