Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of post-independence Africa as well as a ground breaking postcolonial theorist. Part 1 of this volume provides resources and background for the teaching the novels, plays, memoirs, and criticism. The essays of part 2, consider the influence of Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, and Joseph Conrad; the role of women in and influence of feminism on his fiction; his interpretation and political use of African history; his experimentation with orality and allegory in narrative.