This study focuses on the process of literary meaning using the semiotic approach. To carry out the study, two primary texts (Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Ngugi Wathiongo’s Matigari) were studied, followed by a summary on each of them. From each text, four signs were identified and analysed, making a total of eight signs in all. Each sign was analysed based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s dyadic model of the sign. The analysis revealed that signs are indeed helpful in the process of literary meaning. Hence, understanding a literary text requires a corresponding understanding of the semiotic signs that are also part of the text as a constructed object.