A Thesis submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises".

Résumé,

This work highlights the oppression and resistance as portrayed and presented in Ngugi wa Thiong'os Wizard of the Crow. It aims at examining the theme of oppression by portraying the dictatorial regime in Aburiria.
It also aims at analysing how Aburirian ordinary people resisted the regime. This work also looks at how Ngugi wa Thiong'o has selected and shaped particular past events to raise the masses' consciousness and ultimately encourages them to play their role effectively in determining the course of history in the future. This work is based on the assumption that an oppressive regime always creates frustration, and resistance becomes inevitable.

Employing the New Historicism approach, this work examines how the hegemony (those in power) controls and manipulates the subaltern group (the powerless or masses in this work). It goes further to explore how at a given time, the subaltern group (the powerless) will challenge the existing order and control and manipulate the hegemony. In fact, New Historicism approach allows us to establish a relation between the past and the present and to some extent predict the future. It is in that perspective that the movement for the voice of the people was born as an exceptional force calling for change in Aburiria.