@article{2018,title={COLONIAL OPPRESSION AND REFLECTIONS OF RESISTANCE DURING POSTCOLONIAL PERIOD IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S PETALS OF BLOOD AND A GRAIN OF WHEAT},abstractNode={In this paper, it is aimed to deal with the colonial oppression and reflections of resistance during postcolonial period in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Petals of Blood and A Grain of Wheat. Ngugi wa Thiongo is a writer born in Kenya, which was once a country under colonial rule. In his works he mentions the problems of his own country and also the people in the exploited lands, the persecution they have experienced and the resistance that has been shown against oppression. Although he wrote his first works in English at the beginning of his literary carrier, in the later period of his life, he started writing in Gikuyu, the language of his own tribe. This change in Ngugi's literary life is actually an awakening and a kind of resistance against the colonial oppression. Ngugi gives voice to the changes in postcolonial Africa, the oppression of the local people, as well as resistance to the colonial powers in the two works studied in this work.},author={Eren BOLAT},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}