Vol. 2, Issue 4, Part B (2016)

Abstract
“Petals of Blood” one of the later novels by Ngugi deals with the destiny of man and the destiny of a whole nation as it expresses itself in terms of politics. Though the private lives of the protagonists have been duly incorporated and their interaction upon each other extensively explored, the novels remains primarily a political tract. Each individual act has been restored to its social matrix. The novel encompasses both the past and the present of the Kenyan society and also just out into the future.