Human Relationship, a Sine Quo Non of Africans to Surmount Western Influence

A Reading of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wrestling with the Devil : A Prison Memoir

Abstract

The power of resilience in the community of Africa is closely inter-knitted with individual’s power of resilience. Human relationship is an alliance through which African society can conquer the influence of Western dominance. The memoir, Wrestling with the Devil serves well to expose the passionate diligence of Ngugi wa Thiong’o to convey the fact that progress of Africans depends on human relationship, which is a sine quo non of Africans in the conflict of western influence. Occidents gain power over orients by utilizing the division among orients in ethnic and religious lines. Ngugi ’s depiction of the tragic end of the African rebellions in the memoir substantiates the occidents power over orients. Ngugi wa Thiong’o ‘s Wrestling with the Devil depicts the challenges that he has faced while writing a novel under the twenty-four-hour surveillance in the Kamiti prison. The study aims to expose the necessity of human relationship or unity among Africans to conquer the western influence which damages the country.