In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers. <br><br>Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Republic of Aburiria,” <b>Wizard of the Crow</b> dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, this magnificent novel reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.