Muhammad Asadullah2025-11-292025-11-292022https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/13701By using New historicism theory combined with postcolonial theory, this research investigates how Ngugi wa Thiong`o`s Petals of Blood depicts the post-colonial narrative from the African point of view and the damage caused to the African society and their culture during colonial era. The novel depicts life during and after the colonial period and gives a close analysis of cultural transformation that is caused to African values. By using Practicing New historicism by Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher as a theoretical framework, this study investigates how post colonial narrative as reflected in Petals of Blood can provide a better context and explication of colonial phenomenon in Africa specifically Kenya. New historicism deals with reading text and considering its context, background, and history in order to understand why a particular text has been written and the time frame in which it is written in order to probe the events that influenced a writer’s imaginative speculations/ narratives. Therefore, the objective of this study is to look at new historicist concepts such as circulation of power and thick description along with culture as text in order to better understand and comprehend this post-colonial, narrative, Petals of Blooden-USThesis