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A Grain of Wheat
- By: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 09, 2019
- Language: English
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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent... Read more
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