Deciphering Ngugi’s Prejudice in Favour of Youth as Socio Political Role Players Through His Novels

Abstract

Any writer whether or not writes in order to communicate their subjective observations about the world. Texts, as such, are an act of  communicating both subjectivities and objectivities which are at times inadvertent. With writers communicating in order to express their  experiences with the real world, it is at the same time unfair to claim that they are being objectivity or subjective as they present the world as they  see it. In this study, an attempt is made to unravel the hidden or sub conscious agenda which pervades Ngugi’s pan-African fictional works. The  authors argue that Ngugi, world of struggle against foreign and local oppression places youth as the hope of his society in many aspects. Their  representation absolves them from contributing to the pain and suffering of fellow human beings. In light of this, special focus was paid to the  empathy and trust this author seems to show towards younger characters in his works. The study used textual analysis and the results showed that  as opposed to elderly characters, the ideal world this author seems to describe and prescribe is represented by the majority of the age group, the  young, he deploys in his plots. In addition to an amelioration of the attitude towards youth, it suggests a shift away from the view that youth are  delinquents and a lost generation.