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This is a revised version of a paper presented at the international conference, “Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts”;, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus, Reading, PA., April 7–9, 1994. The author would like to thank the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, for their support for the research of which this is a part. In 1989 and 1990 he served as a University Fellow there. He also is indebted to the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio for travel assistance in this project. Neither institution bears responsibility for the interpretations contained herein.

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