countries. Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong o and Kofi Awoonor are such writers who have made great artistic...... more

, bestselling author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child...... 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

literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous...... more

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel P... more

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

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

wa Thiong’o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine...... more

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

The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stan... more

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

."--The Boston Globe Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the...... more

the first time, as a result of years of village - level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the...... more

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the...... more

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

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

This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi ... more

Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western... more

Ngugi describes this book as ’a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately invo... more

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on...... more

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

charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release...... 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

the very beginnings of a writer’s creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounts the...... more

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

Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation. A groundbre... more

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

simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. 作者簡介 Ngugi wa Thiong...... more

Thiong o, the most significant East African writer (the New York Times), each use the politics and history of Africa in the...... more

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