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 Commencing in our times and set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria Wizard of the Crow 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