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A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature & Society
This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre....
The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu....
Reflections on Writers & Empire
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' respon...
Resistance to Repression in Neo-colonial Kenya
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Essays
The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freein...
This is the renowned play that was developed with Kikuyu villagers at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru....
A Writer's Prison Diary
The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he d...
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations....
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" custo...
The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
"A reimagining of an old Gikuyu fable"--...
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
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 p...
"Two small boys stand on a rubbish heap and look into the future. One boy is excited, he is beginning school; the other, his brother, is an apprentice...
Whether you are an executive or a student, beginner or expert, this book is designed to explain and illustrate the working essentials of finance with ...
"Lyrical and hilarious in turn, Matigari is a memorable satire on the betrayal of human ideals and on the bitter experience of post-independence Afric...
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literatur...
A Reader's Companion
The Trial Of Dedan Kimathy Is An Important African Protest Play. It Is Based On Historical Facts And Depicts How Kenya Won Its Independence Through Th...
People's Theatre in Kenya
A Childhood Memoir
InDreams in a Time of War,Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerising portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the ...
A Translation from Gĩkũyũ by the Author
Devil on the Cross tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who emigrated from her small rural town to the city of Nairobi only to be exploit...
Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics
A novel....
Ngugi and Micere Mugo have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the celebrated leaders of th...
"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. P...
“The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer The puz...
Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
This study explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporar...
A Memoir of a Writer's Awakening
"As a young student, internationally renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong'o found his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pi...
A Memoir
During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the presti...
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