A Meeting In The Dark

A meeting In the Dark(1974) is a short story written by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. A Kenyan playwright. The play is centered on John and his academical pursuit, John's dream is to further his education outside the country to overwhelmed by a challenge, his lover Wamuhu is pregnant for him. Out of his anxiety to further his education, he strangles his lover to death

Plot
The play is set in Kikuyu community of Kenya. John is a very respected person in the community. John is a well educated and he also has his community in mind, John had dreams of furthering his education outside Kenya with the hope of a better future.

Months before his travel, his lover gets pregnant and this makes him thinks that he might not be able to further his dream as he will be a father soon

he tries to persuade wamuhu not to inform her parents about it or tell them it's another person's child but she disagrees with his opinion and out of anxiety he strangles her in the neck till she could not breathe and died then he comes to his senses that he had just killed his lover and the unborn child

Characters
john

stanley(john's father)

sussana(john's mother)

wamuhu(John's lover)