This is my presentation on A Grain of Wheat as a National epic of Anti-colonial struggle.

1. Bharat Bhammar
Roll No : 03 Semester : 4 Year : 2015-16
Paper 13 : The African Literature
Submitted to:
Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department of English
M.K. Bhav. University
A Grain of Wheat as a National epic
of Anti-colonial struggle

2. A Grain of
Wheat
National
Epic
Anti-
colonial
Struggle

3. The West
White
colonizers
The Power
Patriarchal man
Fatherland
The Rest
Nonwhites
colonized
Have-not power
womanized
Motherland

4. Mau Mau Rebellion

5. Mau
Mau
Rebellion
Physical
Psychological
Political impact

6. Uhuru : Freedom

7. “The for gikuyu peasants Uhuru means a profound
break with the colonial past,a rebirth which has to bring
about the restitution of the lands usurped by the white
settlers and the eradication of poverty.”

8.  The former ‘Mau Mau’ guerilla General R. states in
his Independence speech
“ We get Uhuru today. But what’s the meaning of
Uhuru? It is contained in the name of our Movement
Land and Freedom” (216-7)

9. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it produces much grain.”
Heroism and Sacrifice
Of Violence-Decolonization

10. Refracted Revolt: Through the conscience of its heroes
and heroines: It is their narration which is represented
,and it is through their narration that those historical
events are relived.