Thinking Activity : Petals of Blood

 Hello Monks...
I am Riddhi Bhatt. After a long time, I am back and wrote a blog. Yes finally our last and semester 4 is begun and that's why one of my favorite activities - thinking Activity is started now. So today I want to talk about "Petals of Blood " by Ngugi Wa Thiong’O. As a part of the syllabus, students of the English Department are learning the paper called "African Literature". So, let’s start friends. But before we start I want to give short information about what kind of things we see here…

Ngugi Wa Thiong’O :

James Ngugi, often known as Ngg wa Thiong'o, is a Kenyan writer and professor who mostly works in Gikuyu. His works range from literary and social critique to children's literature and include novels, plays, short tales, and essays. Mtiri, a Gikuyu-language periodical, is his creation and he is its editor. His short tale The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright has been translated into over a hundred languages.Ngg was then imprisoned for more than a year. The artist was freed from prison and fled Kenya after being adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. He is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine in the United States. He's also taught at Northwestern University, Yale University, and New York University, among other places. Ngg has long been considered a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the International Nonino Prize in 2001 and the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2016. The writers Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩand Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ  are among his children.

Brief Sketch on Petals of Blood :

Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Petals of Blood, which was originally published in 1977. The tale follows four individuals — Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are connected as a result of the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya shortly after independence. Each retreats to the quiet, rural town of Ilmorog to get away from the metropolis. The protagonists struggle with the aftermath of the Mau Mau insurrection as well as a new, fast westernizing Kenya as the narrative proceeds. stories storey primarily explores the skepticism of change following Kenya's independence from colonial authority, wondering to what degree a free Kenya just replicates, and hence perpetuates, the oppression that existed during its colonial rule. Other topics covered include capitalism's problems, politics, and the impacts of westernisation. Education, schools, and the Mau Mau insurrection are also utilized storywesternization to bring the characters together, as they all have a shared heritage.