Ngugi wa Thiong”o is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, and an award-winning Kenyan author currently writing primarily in the Gikuyu language. The author of novels, plays, short stories, and essays, Ngugi wa Thiong”o is founder and editor of the online Gikuyu-language journal,
Mutiiri, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books include
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir;
Decolonising the Mind;
Something Torn and New; and the novels
The River Between,
Petals of Blood, and
Wizard of the Crow, among others.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Globalectics
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong’o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Birth of a Dream Weaver
One of Oprah.com’s ’17 Must-Read Books for the New Year’ and O Magazine’s ’10 Titles to Pick up Now.’ “Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the gr …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Wrestling with the Devil
A New York Times Editors’ Choice ‘A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit.’ —Ariel Dorfman, The New …
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Minutes of Glory
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, hon …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: In the Name of the Mother
Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi’s and other writers’ responses to colonialism – there is new material here f …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Der Fluss dazwischen
Ngugis Roman erzählt vom Leben im kenianischen Hochland zu jener Zeit, als die weiße Eroberung erst ein bedrohlicher Schatten war. Waiyaki wächst in der traditionellen Dorfgemeinschaft der Gikuyu auf …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Der gekreuzigte Teufel
Der gekreuzigte Teufel wurde von Ngũgĩ heimlich im Gefängnis – er wurde wegen eines Theaterstücks in Gĩkũyũ verhaftet, aber nie vor Gericht gestellt – auf Toilettenpapier niedergeschrieben. Erst kurz …
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Osonye Tess Onwueme: Tell It to Women
Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western educati …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Dreams in a Time of War
Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born the fifth child of his father’s third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: In the House of the Interpreter
During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are ch …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Wizard of the Crow
Informed by traditional African storytelling, discover Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s masterpiece. To honour the Ruler’s birthday, the Free Republic of Aburiria set out to build a tower; a modern wonder of the …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Birth of a Dream Weaver
Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Wrestling with the Devil
Ngugi wa Thiong o s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya s Kamiti Maxi …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Petals of Blood
‘A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya… Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take’ Sunday Times After deca …
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Secret Lives & Other Stories
‘One of the greatest writers of our time’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ngugi wa Thiong’o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published in …
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