Barack Obama, via Facebook A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on ... more

leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned...... more

Description A thrilling story by the internationally acclaimed African writer. Young Njoroge be... more

time" Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer...... more

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual histor... more

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual histor... more

prison--featuring an introduction by Namwali Serpell, the author of the novel The Old Drift One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o...... more

Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o was a student at a prestigious, British-run...... more

A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the...... more

. Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, calls for the alliance of art and people power, freedom and dignity against the...... more

Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed...... more

the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi wa Thiong o--one of the most...... more

nefarious Global Bank. Informed by traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is widely considered Ngugi wa Thiong’o...... more

Ngugi wa Thiong o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First...... more

literature, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s damning satire of politics and corruption in Kenya would prove the catalyst for his imprisonment...... more

Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya s d... more

Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya s d... more

For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and...... more

, politics, and culture. This work features a foreword by formerly exiled Kenyan novelist, poet, and critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Nd...... more

Chike Jeffers is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax.... more

Es kia Mphahlele s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time in... more

intersection of tradition and modernity, colonialism, and independence. Botswana s preeminent writer Bessie Head and Ngugi wa...... more