Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is an important contemporary world writers - his name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle. Patrick William's analysis offers up-to-date study of Ngugi's writing, including his recent collections of essays. Focusing on important aspects of Ngugi's more obscure works, and drawing on a wide range of relevant theoretical perspectives, this study examines the growing complexity of Ngugi's accounts of the history of colonized and postcolonial Kenya.