A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is
an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan
novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.
Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow
dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for
the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and
an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician.
Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling
mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi
wa'Thiong'o--one of the most widely read African writers--reveals
humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.