Kiran Bhat's Reviews > The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

Just amazing. With this epic poem Ngugi wa Thiong'o has cemented himself as one of the most important living writers working today. The Perfect Nine is the epic of the Gikuyu people. The poem is as timeless and as emotive as any other work of classic literature. I hope that in time it has just a mark on the formation of the global canon as the Iliad or The Aeneid, and provides a space to remind us of the important of the mother tongue in the formations of our world literatures...