Literature And Imagination

"I used to think of fiction as being able to effect change immediately. I still believe that fiction in the larger context of literature does intervene in social struggles but I take a larger view. Literature as art, a product of imagination, is also more essentially food for the imagination. Imagination is an integral art of the human. Imagination needs art to keep it alive. "

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o talks to Salon about Wizard of the Crow and his experience with dictatorships