You have goals… we have help.

This is from the point of view of the creature who seems to think the cottagers are somehow his friends and will take sympathy on him. This, however, will not be the case.

Perhaps more than anything else, Devil on the Cross is a biting satire directed against the powers of neocolonialism and the corruption that is bred by a faulty process of decolonization. As Ngũgĩ shows us through characters like Boss Kĩhara, the...

Mr. Browne says that he will give the class a new precept every month. For the month of September, he tells them to consider: “If you have the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”