What a novel - strange because a black fighter who has fought against white colonists, and won, buries his arms and now wears around his waist a belt of peace, in the civilized world, Kenya, and that's the strange thing when a man appears, reminiscent of Jesus Christ. He makes friends with the poorest of the poor, a boy, who like other boys found in a car wreck his home, proud of is that there is a Mercedes Benz, and also made friends with a prostitute, to sell to feed her siblings had to. Matigari, it means the Kenyan Christ, brave deeds, brings him to wonders said to no one knows who he really is, nobody knows if he really is the reincarnation of Christ, or just a mythical hope that people drive them out of their poverty could be given him credit, he could bring peace and justice in the land, the people are so behind him. One of the magnificence of the novel is that the veil of mystery is never taken from the Matigari.
Much missed a sanctimonious novel to think of a Jesus who has come at last to Kenya to pull out of the swamp of corruption, greed, mendacious politics, injustice, poverty and population. Thank heaven. Trivialities, however, are not tools of the author. Ngugi wa Thiong'o uses the figure of Matigari to the grievances of his home to show to draw attention, not to wait for the New Jerusalem, where everything has to be better than on the earth stand up sinned, but, ready to act and no fear, because fear paralyzed.
aufmucken pacifists, because it is not shown clearly how far Matigari really proceed to violence would be to defend normal rights. The colonists, who robbed him of his house, he brings to any event. That would not Jesus accomplished. Now Matigari on the verge of selling the sons of the colonists, because now these bastards have taken possession of his house is. The struggle continues.
"The builder builds a house.
The one who has watched the building absorbs.
The builder is sleeping outside,
no roof over their head ........
... .......
The worker produces goods.
foreigners and parasites have it.
The worker is standing there with empty hands. "
alone seek truth and justice and talk about it does not help, therefore Matigari will again take up arms. That is the important consequence of the Matigari pulls, and that the author criticizes my view, the peace talk of church people who can only talk but no peace, justice, etc. can create. On Earth, you have to do for it what, in heaven, it might give him, anyway, peace (on this topic, there is a conversation between a pastor and Matigari).
full splendor is depicted as a nasty totalitarian state apparatus works, which is then also supplied by the United States and the European Community with weapons and cash injections. It is told so well that everyone understands. When we read, some people are uncomfortable as locked into the insane asylum, we may like to think of the GDR, even though the novel does in Kenya.
a political novel with a dash of adventure. In October 1986 the novel was published in Kenya. It thus seems very adventurous, as in January 1987 reports of the secret police reported that farmers in central Kenya went out a rumor that a certain Matigari wander through the country and demand truth and justice. The police were instructed to arrest those Matigari until they came out he was only a fictional character. Books were searched, the novel was seized.
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