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Petals of blood is not set in early colonial kenya or during the struggle for the. Petals of blood is a jarring and unsettling portrayal of life in postcolonial kenya. The paper shows that postcolonial writers treat religion not simply as a spiritual gateway to and thus an agent to revive. Ngugi wa thiongos petals of blood is a typical example of contemporary african novels and it is the focus of this paper.
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