This author’s daughter wrote the 2014 novel The Fall of Saints. A suicidal woman receives an invitation signed by Satan to choose “seven experts in theft and robbery” in a novel that this author wrote on toilet paper, Devil on the Cross. In a novel by this author, a beggar and protestor jointly grift as a sorcerer who manages to heal the voice of The Ruler, dictator of the fictional nation of (*) Aburiria. A character breaks his left arm in a race on the day of Uhuru in a novel by this author in which General R. fills in when Mugo refuses to give a speech. The town of Ilmorog appears in two sequential novels whose switch in languages is explained in this author’s essay Decolonising the Mind. For 10 points, name this Gikuyu-language author of Wizard of the Crow and A Grain of Wheat. ■END■
ANSWER: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o [or James Ngũgĩ]
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