Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's representation of The Mau-Mau Uprising in his Petals of Blood and A Grain of Wheat

This research is about two African novels in English, Petals of Blood (1977) and A Grain of Wheat (1967) written by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, He is a well known African contemporary postcolonial writer. The purpose of his novels was to show the role of a long-lasting resisting movement of the Kenyas against the oppressive colonial rule in Kenya. These novels reveal people's dreams of new Kenya, the type of Kenya where everyone will be free to express their voices, where everyone will be able to get their stolen lands back from the colonizers. In addition, the other purpose of these novels is to subvert the power of the colonial text that misrepresents Kenya as a whole and that misrepresents Mau Mau revolution, depicting Mau-Mau as very evil.