The Dogear

Devil on the Cross

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1980

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Set in

  • ★
    Nairobi · Kenya
    Wariinga exploited in capital
    ★ primary
  • Ilmorog · Kenya
    rural origins of protagonist

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