Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o2004

A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria. Ng?g? 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, Ng?g? reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.

Titre original : Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow) (2004)