Kihika’s Bible: The recontextualisation of the Gospel in Ngugi’s <i>A Grain of Wheat</i>

How might a post-colonial novel by the author of Decolonising the Mind deal with the Christian Gospel, that pillar of Western culture, used for too long to justify European imperialism in Africa and elsewhere? In A Grain of Wheat (1967), Ngugi depicts both the appropriation and betrayal of the Chris...

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Main Author: Marijke van Vuuren
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Scriber Editorial Systems 2000-12-01
Series:Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
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Online Access:https://www.koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/view/462