Bharat Bhammar

Roll No : 03 Semester : 4 Year : 2015-16

Paper 13 : The African Literature

Submitted to:

Smt. S.B.Gardi

Department of English

M.K. Bhav. University

A Grain of Wheat as a National epic

of Anti-colonial struggle

A Grain of Wheat

National Epic

Anti-colonial Struggle

The West

White

colonizers

The Power

Patriarchal man

Fatherland

The Rest

Nonwhites

colonized

Have-not power

womanized

Motherland

Mau Mau Rebellion

Mau Mau

Rebellion

Physical

Psychological

Political impact

Uhuru : Freedom

“The for gikuyu peasants Uhuru means a profound

break with the colonial past,a rebirth which has to bring

about the restitution of the lands usurped by the white

settlers and the eradication of poverty.”

The former ‘Mau Mau’ guerilla General R. states in

his Independence speech

“ We get Uhuru today. But what’s the meaning of

Uhuru? It is contained in the name of our Movement

Land and Freedom” (216-7)

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat

falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it

dies, it produces much grain.”

Heroism and Sacrifice

Of Violence-Decolonization

Refracted Revolt: Through the conscience of its heroes

and heroines: It is their narration which is represented

,and it is through their narration that those historical

events are relived.