Ngugi Thiango’s The River Between: The Decline of the Gikuyu Essay
Set in the time of the Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi wa Thiango’s novel, “The River Between” tells a harrowing story of the clash between two villages in the Gikuyu region over the maintenance of the traditional Gikuyu belief systems vs. the integration of Christianity by colonial white settlers. It tells of one man (Waiyaki)’s struggle…