title: Genres of Cold War Theory
abstract: Evanston-Limuru-Yalta." This triad of locations, along with a date stamp, "October 1970 -October 1975," appears at the end of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's novel Petals of Blood.Despite its conciseness, the note provides more than the biographical information needed to understand the genesis of this novel -places where the author completed substantial parts of the work. 1 The Kenyan writer positions his birthplace, Limuru, at the center of a geopolitical equation, flanked by institutions in the United Sta