Davey Davis

I’d never heard of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o before he died this past May (I’m a rube). Intrigued by his many reverent obituaries, I chose the Kenyan author’s A Grain of Wheat at random from the seminal works that were circulating, then ordered a copy from my best friend. Taking place in central-ish Kenya over a few days in 1963, Grain begins when a man named Mugo refuses to give the village speech fo