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While a professor at the University of Nairobi, Ngũgĩ was the catalyst of the discussion to abolish the English department. He argued that after the end of colonialism, it was imperative that a university in Africa teach African literature, including oral literature, and that such should be done with
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On 8 August 2004, Ngũgĩ returned to Kenya as part of a month-long tour of East Africa. On 11 August, robbers broke into his high-security apartment: they assaulted Ngũgĩ, sexually assaulted his wife and stole various items of value. When Ngũgĩ returned to America at the end of his month trip, five
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a story of miracles and perseverance; a chronicle of modernity and myth; a meditation on beginnings and endings; and a palimpsest of ancient and contemporary memory, as Ngũgĩ overlays the Perfect Nine's feminine power onto the origin myth of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya in a moving rendition of the
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When asked in 2023 whether Kenyan English or Nigerian English were now local languages, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o responded: "It's like the enslaved being happy that theirs is a local version of enslavement. English is not an African language. French is not. Spanish is not. Kenyan or Nigerian English is
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He was imprisoned in a cell with other political prisoners. During part of their imprisonment, they were allowed one hour of sunlight a day. Ngũgĩ writes "The compound used to be for the mentally deranged convicts before it was put to better use as a cage for 'the politically deranged." He found
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in Kenya that sought to liberate the theatrical process from what he held to be "the general bourgeois education system", by encouraging spontaneity and audience participation in the performances. His project sought to "demystify" the theatrical process, and to avoid the "process of alienation
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the realization of the richness of African languages. In the late 60s, these efforts resulted in the university dropping English Literature as a course of study, and replacing it with one that positioned African Literature, oral and written, at the centre.
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by being appointed to the Erich Maria Remarque Professorship in Languages to "acknowledge extraordinary scholarly achievement, strong leadership in the University Community and the Profession and significant contribution to our educational
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concluded that it is "a beautiful work of integration that not only refuses distinctions between 'high art' and traditional storytelling, but supplies that all-too rare human necessity: the sense that life has meaning."
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as a professor of English literature. He continued to teach at the university for ten years while serving as a Fellow in Creative Writing at Makerere. During this time, he also guest lectured at
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Chair. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature as well as having been the first director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the
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produces a gallery of active stars and an undifferentiated mass of grateful admirers" which, according to Ngũgĩ, encourages passivity in "ordinary people". Although his landmark play
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said: "Ngugi's language is fresh; the questions he raises are profound, the argument he makes is clear: 'To starve or kill a language is to starve and kill a people's memory bank.
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During his time in prison, Ngũgĩ decided to cease writing his plays and other works in English and began writing all his creative works in his native tongue, Gikuyu.
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Kilolo, Moses (2 June 2020). "The single most translated short story in the history of African writing: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Jalada writers' collective".
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nonsense. That's an example of normalised abnormality. The colonised trying to claim the coloniser's language is a sign of the success of enslavement."
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men were arrested on suspicion of the crime, including a nephew of Ngũgĩ. In the northern hemisphere summer of 2006 the American publishing firm
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1993: The Zora Neale Hurston-Paul Robeson Award, for artistic and scholarly achievement, awarded by the National Council for Black Studies, in
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author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist". He began writing in English, switching to write primarily in
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2016 (14 December): Sanaa Theatre Awards/Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of excellence in Kenyan Theatre, Kenya National Theatre.
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2008 (2 April): Order of the Elder of Burning Spear (Kenya Medal – conferred by Kenya's Ambassador to the United States in Los Angeles).
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as "a quest novel-in-verse that explores folklore, myth and allegory through a decidedly feminist and pan-African lens." The review in
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between 1989 and 1992. In 1992, he was a guest at the Congress of South African Writers and spent time in Zwide Township with
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1992 (6 April): The Paul Robeson award for Artistic Excellence, Political Conscience and Integrity, in Philadelphia, U.S.
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2002 (October): Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Cabinet Awarded by the International Scientific Committee of the
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While in exile, Ngũgĩ worked with the London-based Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Kenya (1982–98).
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1994 (October): The Gwendolyn Brooks Center Contributors Award for significant contribution to The Black Literary Arts
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Toh, Zorobi Philippe. “Linguistic Mystifications in Discourse: Case of Proverbs in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari”.
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Wise, Christopher. 1997. "Resurrecting the Devil: Notes on Ngũgĩ's Theory of the Oral-Aural African Novel."
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which, among other things, organised African Theatre in the area. The following year saw the publication of
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, lauréat du Grand Prix des Mécènes / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o awarded Grand Prix des mécènes:
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2019: Premi Internacional de Catalunya Award for his Courageous work and Advocacy for African languages
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Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa
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Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa
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became the first work written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted for the
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Republika: Časopis Za Kulturu I Društvena Pitanja (Izbor Iz Novije Afričke Književnosti)
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premiered as part of the event at The National Theatre. At the conference Ngũgĩ asked
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2014 (16 November): Honoured at Archipelago Books' 10th anniversary gala in New York.
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After his release in December 1978, he was not reinstated to his job as professor at
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2012 (31 March): W.E.B. Du Bois Award, National Black Writer's Conference, New York.
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to study for an MA, Ngũgĩ travelled to England, where he was when his second novel,
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is the winner of the Winter 2007 Read This! for Lit-Blog Co-Op; The Literary Saloon
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1996: The Fonlon-Nichols Prize, New York, for Artistic Excellence and Human Rights
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2003 (May): Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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2002 (July): Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCI.
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Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics
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Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics
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Imaginaire et représentations socioculturelles dans les proverbes africains
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Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award for Philosophical Literature
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2008: Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals,
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Ngũgĩ was Visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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and also published in 1977, provoked the then Kenyan Vice-President
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2004 (23–28 February): Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, gender, and the ethics of postcolonial reading
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Ngũgĩ was subsequently imprisoned for over a year. Adopted as an
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Gold medal winner in Fiction for the 2007 California Book Awards
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Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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that his father had physically abused his mother, now deceased.
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Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya
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Scheub, Harold; Wynne Gunner, Elizabeth Ann (2 December 2022).
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Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya
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Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals
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2011: (17 February) Africa Channel Literary Achievement Award.
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solace in writing and wrote the first modern novel in Gikuyu,
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Walter Sisulu University (formerly U. Transkei), South Africa
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PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
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to order his arrest. Along with copies of his play, books by
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in the department of English and African Studies for a year.
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Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel
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Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Kenya
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Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing on JSTOR
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Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer's Awakening
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Leeds: Magazine for alumni of the University of Leeds UK
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A Study Guide for Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "Petals of Blood"
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magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year (European edition)
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Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
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2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Black Literature
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published his first new novel in nearly two decades,
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Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom
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Booker Prize Foundation. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
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Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
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Zell, Carol Bundy, Virginia Coulon, 1227:California State University, Dominguez Hills 614:(1976). He wrote this in collaboration with 387:held at Makerere in June 1962, and his play 4501:Academic staff of the University of Nairobi 1545:Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir 1259:, Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h.c.), 2014 759:Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir 4146: 4132: 4124: 4039: 3940:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2529:"Ngugi wa Thiong'o (b. James Ngugi, 1938)" 2367:A New Reader's Guide to African Literature 2184:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 610:His time in prison also inspired the play 533:In 1976, Thiong'o helped to establish The 51: 40: 3968:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183907.001.0001 2469: 2467: 2465: 2342: 2340: 2338: 2336: 1584:Wrestling with the devil: A Prison Memoir 1558:In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir 1271:, Honorary doctorate (D.Litt. h.c.), 2017 924:Nonino International Prize for Literature 782:Kenda Muiyuru: Rugano Rwa Gikuyu na Mumbi 763:In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir 417:First publications and studies in England 4586:University of California, Irvine faculty 4536:Kenyan expatriates in the United Kingdom 4082:Ngugi wa Thiong'o biography and booklist 2321: 2319: 2317: 2315: 2313: 2311: 2309: 2307: 2249:"Namibian Literature at the Cross Roads" 1253:, Honorary doctorate in Literature, 2013 251:has been translated into 100 languages. 4481:21st-century dramatists and playwrights 4456:20th-century dramatists and playwrights 3627:"Awards: LARB/UCR Lifetime Achievement" 2946:Peterson, Angeline (27 November 2020). 1801: 448:, for which his studies had focused on 3933: 2575: 2573: 2290:. Africa World Press. pp. 15–16. 2177: 397:to read the manuscripts of his novels 4526:Kenyan emigrants to the United States 4087:The Language of Scholarship in Africa 3690:Ibeh, Chukwuebuka (4 February 2022). 2398:Ngunjiri, Joseph (25 November 2007). 2145: 2143: 2141: 2139: 1949: 1947: 1945: 1127:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 509:; by 1970 he had changed his name to 488:Change of name, ideology and teaching 226: 7: 3567:. Archipelago Books. 18 August 2014. 2977:Tepper, Anderson (12 October 2020). 1839:. ngugiwathiongo.com. Archived from 1277:, Honorary doctorate (D.Litt.), 2019 1000:s picks for Best Fiction of the year 4348:Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories 4093:74 (December 2012), pp. 42–47. 3998:, Lifestyle Magazine, 13 June 2009. 3539:Caribbean Philosophical Association 3375:Pauli, Michelle (6 November 2007). 2600:. Ashgate Publishing. p. 151. 1478:. Lawrence Hill and Company. 1972. 646:in London. He also studied film at 3854:Minutes of Glory and Other Stories 3603:. 16 December 2016. Archived from 3465:Williams, John (14 January 2012). 3356:. University of California, Irvine 3018:Sampson, Fiona (10 October 2020). 2418:"Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Man of Letters" 1705:The Language of Languages (2023), 1446:Minutes of Glory and Other Stories 1166:2018, for his entire body of work. 1111:National Book Critics Circle Award 860:. In March 2024, Mũkoma posted on 352:. His family was caught up in the 25: 4521:Kenyan dramatists and playwrights 4506:Alumni of the University of Leeds 3348:Lewis, Veronica (23 April 2007). 3077:Waweru, Peter Kimani and Kiundu. 2909:"In the House of the Interpreter" 2622:"Out of Africa, a literary voice" 2581:"Kenya exile ends troubled visit" 2556:. Foundation Press. p. 207. 2379:Wachira, Muchemi (2 April 2008). 2237:. Chimurenga Who No Know Go Know. 2103:[Biographic appendices]. 1539:Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary 1027:Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 873:1963: The East Africa Novel Prize 571:were confiscated. He was sent to 307:. Among his children are authors 4383:Education for a National Culture 3850:Bokemper, Daniel (Summer 2019). 3401:. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 3324:"Beginnings: Wizard of the Crow" 2533:Craig White's Literature Courses 2497:The Emergence of African Fiction 1735:(translated by Wangui wa Goro) ( 1727:Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu 1725:(translated by Wangui wa Goro) ( 1597:Education for a National Culture 930:Zimbabwe International Book Fair 771:, among other positive reviews. 692:University of California, Irvine 281:University of California, Irvine 4407:Writing against Neo-Colonialism 4340:Secret Lives, and Other Stories 4278:Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief 4077:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – An Overview 4020:Research in African Literatures 3728:. November 2013. 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As a student he attended the 4556:Kenyan prisoners and detainees 4270:Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus 4107:68 (May 2006), pp. 26–54. 4105:Leeds African Studies Bulletin 3826:Secret Lives and Other Stories 3103:Stephen, Onu (13 March 2024). 3056:Koga, Valerie (2 April 2021). 2705:"ROUGHED UP ON THE WATERFRONT" 2474:Baraka, Carey (13 June 2023). 2356:74 (December 2012), pp. 48–62. 2353:Leeds African Studies Bulletin 1723:Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus 1102:Man Booker International Prize 1095:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 728:On 10 November 2006, while in 573:Kamiti Maximum Security Prison 1: 3601:James Murua's Literature Blog 2550:K. Narayana Chandran (2005). 2493:Brown, David Maughan (1979). 2077:. 18 May 2014. 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December 1978. 1251:University of Dar es Salaam 1207:, Doctor of Humane Letters 1186:Royal Society of Literature 1152:Los Angeles Review of Books 1048:Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1046:- shortlisted for the 2007 1018:Favorite Books of the year. 661:, his prison diary (1981), 358:Kenya Land and Freedom Army 4602: 4576:Makerere University alumni 4203:The Trial of Dedan Kimathi 3906:Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (2018). 3823:Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1992). 3350:"Ngugi Wins Fiction Prize" 3160:Nonino Distillatori S.p.A. 2594:Nicholls, Brendon (2013). 2452:"A Grain of Wheat Summary" 2150:Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (2017). 1785:21st century in literature 1493:The Trial of Dedan Kimathi 1174:International Booker Prize 1172:2021: Shortlisted for the 1100:2009: Shortlisted for the 830:International Booker Prize 788:. It was described by the 612:The Trial of Dedan Kimathi 385:African Writers Conference 371:, and went on to study at 301:International Nonino Prize 283:. He previously taught at 29: 4581:People from Kiambu County 4491:21st-century male writers 4466:20th-century male writers 3839:– via Google Books. 2553:Texts and Their Worlds Ii 2284:John Roger Kurtz (1998). 1747:Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene 1122:2013 (October): UCI Medal 324:Early years and education 297:Nobel Prize in Literature 208: 50: 27:Kenyan writer (born 1938) 4091:African Studies Bulletin 3322:Kinna (27 August 2010). 3245:"Where magic is reality" 1975:George Padmore Institute 1893:10.4324/9781315149660-21 984:s Best Books of the Year 739:His later books include 657:His later works include 549:I Will Marry When I Want 4571:Kikuyu-language writers 4471:20th-century memoirists 4052:The Leonard Lopate Show 3425:23 October 2016 at the 2852:Dreams in a Time of War 1868:Encyclopedia Britannica 1762:, Seagull Press, 2019, 1419:Short-story collections 1275:University of Edinburgh 1081:nominated for the 2008 732:at Hotel Vitale at the 519:Northwestern University 303:in Italy, and the 2016 285:Northwestern University 235:; 5 January 1938) is a 4496:21st-century novelists 4486:21st-century essayists 4476:20th-century novelists 4461:20th-century essayists 3861:World Literature Today 3298:"Best fiction of 2006" 3193:University of Bayreuth 2626:Orange County Register 2583:. BBC. 30 August 2004. 2456:LitCharts (SparkNotes) 2156:. New York, New York. 1356:Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini 1257:University of Bayreuth 1239:University of Auckland 1160:Grand Prix des mécènes 942:Centre, Rimini, Italy. 891:1973: The Lotus Prize 809: 795:World Literature Today 711: 587:Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ 498:marked his embrace of 407:African Writers Series 348:descent, and baptised 277:prisoner of conscience 228:[ᵑɡoɣewáðiɔŋɔ] 18:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 4235:Matigari ma Njiruungi 4195:A Meeting in the Dark 3870:10.1353/wlt.2019.0028 3856:by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o" 3829:. Pearson Education. 3109:Premium Times Nigeria 2499:by Charles R. Larson" 2247:Frederick Philander, 2107:(in Serbo-Croatian). 1716: 1426:A Meeting in the Dark 1369:Matigari ma Njiruungi 1263:KCA University, Kenya 1025:- longlisted for the 800: 706:Ngũgĩ reading at the 705: 628:Matigari ma Njiruungi 515:University of Nairobi 274:Amnesty International 224:Gikuyu pronunciation: 163:Matigari ma Njiruungi 45:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 30:In this article, the 4286:Njamba Nene's Pistol 3607:on 26 September 2021 3585:. 21 September 2016. 1825:. 10 September 2019. 1743:Njamba Nene's Pistol 1188:International Writer 1069:Wizard of the Crow – 1062:Wizard of the Crow - 1055:Wizard of the Crow - 688:Erich Maria Remarque 686:, where he held the 648:Dramatiska Institute 644:Borough of Islington 589:), on prison-issued 446:Caribbean literature 440:, came out in 1965. 369:Alliance High School 107:English, Kiswahili, 4551:Kenyan philosophers 4227:Mother, Sing For Me 4067:"Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o" 3420:"Ngugi Wa Thiong’o" 3395:"Ngugi wa Thiong'o" 2882:, 16 November 2012. 2858:The Complete Review 2650:(26 January 2006). 2539:on 9 December 2013. 2495:"Reviewed Work(s): 2204:Makerere University 2129:Nicholls, Brendon. 2101:"Biografski dodaci" 1953:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1609:Mother, Sing For Me 1524:(1977, 1982) (with 1245:New York University 1215:University of Leeds 1142:Park Kyong-ni Prize 1050:Best Book – Africa. 1014:highlighted in the 903:New York University 708:Library of Congress 684:New York University 640:Bayreuth University 551:), co-written with 492:Ngũgĩ's 1967 novel 432:University of Leeds 373:Makerere University 305:Park Kyong-ni Prize 293:New York University 128:University of Leeds 119:Makerere University 4313:This Time Tomorrow 4243:Wizard of the Crow 4219:Devil on the Cross 4101:"Publishing Ngũgĩ" 4060:Wizard of the Crow 4048:"Writing in Exile" 3892:This Time Tomorrow 3671:. 30 November 2021 3633:. 16 February 2016 3472:The New York Times 3225:. 17 December 2006 2926:Mushava, Stanely, 2899:, 1 December 2012. 2765:, 26 January 2009. 2628:. 11 November 2013 2435:"Author Biography" 2274:, 27 October 2017. 2234:Chimurenga Chronic 2153:Devil on the cross 2006:, 8 November 2010. 1957:, 1994, pp. 57–59. 1513:Micere Githae Mugo 1467:This Time Tomorrow 1396:Wizard of the Crow 1361:Devil on the Cross 1083:IMPAC Dublin Award 1079:Wizard of the Crow 1044:Wizard of the Crow 1036:- finalist on the 1034:Wizard of the Crow 1023:Wizard of the Crow 1012:Wizard of the Crow 1005:Wizard of the Crow 989:Wizard of the Crow 973:Wizard of the Crow 960:Wizard of the Crow 868:Awards and honours 722:Wizard of the Crow 712: 616:Micere Githae Mugo 598:Nairobi University 582:Devil on the Cross 328:Ngũgĩ was born in 299:. 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His short story 173:Wizard of the Crow 4433: 4432: 4179:The River Between 4156:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 4071:Books and Writers 4065:Petri Liukkonen. 3977:978-0-19-818390-7 3919:978-1-62097-333-2 3836:978-0-435-90975-8 3803:Ngugi wa Thiong'o 3719:"43rd graduation" 3277:. 7 December 2006 3251:. 17 October 2006 3135:The Africa Report 2983:Los Angeles Times 2917:, 29 August 2012. 2891:Busby, Margaret, 2880:Los Angeles Times 2762:Publishers Weekly 2503:English in Africa 2458:. 28 August 2022. 2297:978-0-86543-657-2 2227:(18 April 2017). 2163:978-0-14-310736-1 2051:"MUKOMA WA NGUGI" 2040:, 6 October 2010. 2032:Provost, Claire, 2023:, 5 October 2010. 2015:Page, Benedicte, 1902:978-1-315-14966-0 1780:Kenyan literature 1711:978-1-80309-071-9 1670:978-0-465-00946-6 1591:Other non-fiction 1579:978-1-62097-240-3 1566:978-0-30790-769-1 1553:978-1-84655-377-6 1485:978-0-435-18580-0 1312:The River Between 1125:2014: Elected to 1071:finalist for the 1016:Washington Post's 790:Los Angeles Times 768:Los Angeles Times 750:Publishers Weekly 652:Stockholm, Sweden 511:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 442:The River Between 437:The River Between 421:His debut novel, 399:The River Between 220:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 217: 216: 145:The River Between 16:(Redirected from 4593: 4546:Kenyan novelists 4531:Kenyan essayists 4321:Ngaahika Ndeenda 4305:The Black Hermit 4262:Children's books 4187:A Grain of Wheat 4148: 4141: 4134: 4125: 4046:Leonard Lopate, 4043: 4038: 4037: 4035:Official website 3999: 3988: 3982: 3981: 3952: 3946: 3945: 3939: 3931: 3912:. 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Index

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
surname
Thiong'o in 2012
Kamiriithu
Kenya Colony
Kiambu County
Kikuyu
Makerere University
BA
University of Leeds
Weep Not, Child
The River Between
A Grain of Wheat
Petals of Blood
Matigari ma Njiruungi
Wizard of the Crow
Mũkoma
Wanjiku
Official website
[ᵑɡoɣewáðiɔŋɔ]
Kenyan
Gikuyu
theatre
Ngaahika Ndeenda
Ngũgĩ wa Mirii
Amnesty International
prisoner of conscience
University of California, Irvine
Northwestern University
Yale University

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