Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

                                       Introduction 

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan writer and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri.

Petals of Blood is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first published in 1977. Set in Kenya just after independence, the story follows four characters – Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion.

Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Country: Kenya

Publisher: Heinemann – African Writers Series

Publication date: 1977

1. Neo-colonialism: concerning Petals of Blood

As we know that The Ngugi Wa Thiongo is a Kenyan post-colonial writer, whose work emphasizes colonialism with the reference of African civilization, when we analyze the petal of blood so we can see the character of Karega has to depict the idea of colonialism as well as the reference of colonialism, the characters like Mzigo, Chui, etc.

For there are many questions about our history which remain unanswered. Our present-day historians, following on similar theories yarned out by defenders of imperialism, insist we only arrived here yesterday.

Narrator, 67

So, Here we can see that the narrator has used the idea that still we are colonized with the thoughts of new colonialism it means that we are working like the hen we were under colonialism. so The idea of the writer sees that Now we have freedom but our ideas are still colonized like there are so many examples from the Petal of The Blood. which is given below.
                         Theng'eta

So, Theng'eta is a kind of Alcoholic drink that represents the idea of the New colonialism that Now they are having freedom but things are never changing like as an Example of western Clothes, so we are the consumer of western's factories that the where this kind of clothes is coming.

Also, Another thing we can see from the Petals of the Blood when Abdulla & wanna works in the shop but some kind of cheats which is coming from the colonial aspect that the Mzigo, who cheat to Abdulla & Wanja and the taking the shop of the Wanja that same happened in Africa & India that Those who were coming from the occupation but then that white people did cheat to us and taking and having the rules over some countries.

           Conclusion 

Thus, we can see that Ngugi Wa Thionigo is one of the post-colonial writers, who depict the African civilization as living under the colonial rules as well as the mind of people is still colonized with the Economic and social conditions.

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