21. The Millions: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Victim Of Racism At San Francisco Hotel Exiled Kenyan Novelist ngugi wa Thiong o was in San Francisco promoting his novel Wizard of the Crow and staying at the Hotel Vitale. http://www.themillionsblog.com/2006/11/ngugi-wa-thiongo-victim-of-racism-at.html

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22. BBC - Africa Beyond - Features - Interview: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o An interview with leading Kenyan writer ngugi wa Thiong o by Koye Oyedeji Kenyan ngugi wathiongo is considered one of the most significant writers to http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africanarts/18063.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import '/africabeyond/assets/css/main.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 27 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage Africa Beyond Home ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Features Photo Galleries Africa Beyond News ... Comments Interview: Ngugi wa Thiong'o An interview with leading Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Koye Oyedeji ahead of the release of his new book 'Wizard of the Crow'. Kenyan Ngugi Wa-Thiongo is considered one of the most significant writers to have emerged from the African continent. He is the author, essayist and playwright of fourteen books, among them seven novels, of which the latest 'Wizard of the Crow' is published in paperback in April. Ngugi was detained without trial in 1977 for his outspoken criticism of the Kenyan government. The following year, between his release and subsequent exile, he stoked a fire of debate that has intensified over the years when he declared that he would no longer write in English and turned to writing his native Gikuyu tongue. The first work of his new assailment was the novel 'Devil On The Cross' , published in 1980 but originally written in 1977 on toilet paper while detained in prison.

23. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Biographical information, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ngugiw.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-) - formerly known as James Ngugi Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright, whose works function as an important link between the pioneers of African writing and the younger generation of postcolonial writers. After imprisonment in 1978, Ngugi abandoned using English as the primary language of his work in favor of Gikuyu, his native tongue. The transition from colonialism to postcoloniality and the crisis of modernity has been a central issues in a great deal of Ngugi's writings. Again the owl cried. Twice! 'A warning to her,' Njorege thought. And again his whole soul rose in anger - anger against all those with a white skin, all those foreign elements that had displaced the true sons of the land from their God-given place. Had God not promised Gekoyo that he would give all the land to the father of the tribe - he and his posterity? Now all the land had been taken away." (from 'The Martyr' in African Literature Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru, Kiambu District, as the fifth child of the third of his father's four wives. At that time Kenya was under British rule, which ended in 1963. Ngugi's family belonged to the Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Gikuyu. His father, Thiong'o wa Nducu, was a peasant farmer, who was forced to become a squatter after the British Imperial Act of 1915. Ngugi attended the mission-run school at Kamaandura in Limuru, Karinga school in Maanguu, and Alliance High School in Kikuyu. During these years Ngugi became a devout Christian. However, at school he also learned about the Gikuyu values and history and underwent the Gikuyu rite of passage ceremony. Later he rejected Christianity, and changed his original name in 1976 from James Ngugi, which he saw as a sign of colonialism, to Ngugi wa Thiong'o in honor of his Gikuyu heritage.

24. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Ng g wa Thiong o signs copies of his new book Wizard of the Crow at the Congress Centre in central London. Wizard was his first book in 20 years, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngugi_wa_Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o signs copies of his new book Wizard of the Crow at the Congress Centre in central London. Wizard was his first book in 20 years, following 22 years of exile due to his highly political work (including the bestselling novel Petals of Blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born January 5 ) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ . His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri Ngugi went into self-imposed exile following his release from a Kenyan prison in ; living in the United States , he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since also taught at New York University , where he was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Languages, with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies , and the University of California, Irvine Contents Biography References Bibliography External links ... edit Biography Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu , near Limuru in Kiambu district , of Kĩkũyũ descent, and baptised

25. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Home Page This is the official web site of ngugi wa Thiong o, novelist and theorist of postcolonial literature and Director of the International Center for Writing http://ngugiwathiongo.com/

ngugiwathiongo.org This is the official web site of Ngugi wa Thiong'o , novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. happenings Announcing the publication of Wizard of the Crow, 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlist LitBog Co-op February 2007 Review Salon.com, 11/14/06 Podcast - Bumbershoot 9/3/06 Podcast - Edinburgh 8/14/06 Press Release Pantheon Books Amazon.com Reviews

26. Ngugi Page Includes biographical background, discussion of major themes, and descriptions of the author s works. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ngugi.html

Ngugi wa Thiong'o N gugi wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, began a very successful career writing in English before turning to work almost entirely in his native Gikuyu. In his 1986 Decolonising the Mind , his "farewell to English," Ngugi describes language as a way people have not only of describing the world, but of understanding themselves. For him, English in Africa is a "cultural bomb" that continues a process of erasing memories of pre-colonial cultures and history and as a way of installing the dominance of new, more insidious forms of colonialism. Writing in Gikuyu, then, is Ngugi's way not only of harkening back to Gikuyu traditions, but also of acknowledging and communicating their present. Ngugi is not concerned primarily with universality, though models of struggle can always move out and be translated for other cultures, but with preserving the specificity of his individual groups. In a general statement, Ngugi points out that language and culture are inseparable, and that therefore the loss of the former results in the loss of the latter: [A] specific culture is not transmitted through language in its universality, but in its particularity as the language of a specific community with a specific history. Written literature and orature are the main means by which a particular language transmits the images of the world contained in the culture it carries.

27. Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi - Kenyan Novelist, Playwright And Essayist people.africadatabase.org/en/person/3601.html Includes a biography and a list of works. Several of these include plot summaries, and excerpts from book reviews and from the books themselves. http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/3601.html

Contemporary Africa Database ::: People Home About Contact CAD Help ... Lists People: A B C D ... Z The Contemporary Africa Database was last updated on 26 September 2006. Further updates have been temporarily suspended due to reorganisation at the Africa Centre, London. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Ngugi wa Thiong'o Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist Family Name: wa Thiong'o Given Name: Ngugi Dates: born 1938 Gender: Male Country: Kenya Positions Positions listed are those which are held currently or have been held in the past. Dates are given wherever possible. Where there are no dates, positions are ordered alphabetically. Head - International Centre for Writing and Translation, University of California at Irvine (2002 - ) Professor of English and Comparative Literature - University of California at Irvine (2002 - ) Founder and Editor - Mutiiri (2000 - ) Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Languages - New York University (1992 - 2002) Chair - Department of Literature, University of Nairobi (1972 - 1977)

28. ICWT - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Ng g wa Thiong o Director, International Center for Writing Translation. ngugi wa Thiong o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/news/ngugi_bio.html

Back Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family. As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau war of Independence, the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works. Ngugi burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit , at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962. In a highly productive literary period, Ngugi published and wrote stories, plays, novels, and a Sunday newspaper column. In that period, his novel, Weep Not Child , was published to critical acclaim in 1964. This publication was followed by The River Between and A Grain of Wheat , a turning point in the formal and ideological direction of his works. In 1967, Ngugi became lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nairobi, eventually becoming Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature. He taught there until 1977 while also serving as Fellow in Creative writing at Makerere in 1969-1970, and as Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University in 1970-1971. In 1969, his first volume of literary essays, Homecoming , appeared in print.

29. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: An Overview Five essays relating to the author on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism. http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/ngugiov.html

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Overview Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Language Question Subversion versus Rejection: Can Postcolonial Writers Subvert the Codified Using the Language of the Empire? Michael Pozo interviews Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, May 2004 Establishing English ... Ngugi on "Christianity and Christian oriented education" Last Modified: 22 June 2004

30. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o In Decolonizing the Mind, ngugi wa Thiong o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood. He says I can vividly recall those evenings of http://www.glpinc.org/Classroom Activities/Kenya Articles/Ngugi Wa Thiong'o-On L

Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Chinue Achebe on the Politics of Language and Literature in Africa Most African literature is oral. It includes stories, riddles, proverbs and sayings. In Decolonizing the Mind , Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood. He says "I can vividly recall those evenings of storytelling around the fire side. It was mostly the grown ups telling the children but everybody was interested and involved. We children would retell the stories the following day to other children who worked in the fields."The stories main characters were usually animals. Ngugi said "Hare being small, weak, but full of innovative wit, was our hero. We identified with him as he struggled against the brutes of prey like lyon, leopard and hyena. His victories were our victories and we learnt that the apparently weak can outwit the strong. Accordiong to Ngugi's way of seeing, you can't study African literatures without studying the particular cultures and oral traditions from which Africans draw their plots, styles and metaphors. So where does all of this leave us in a discussion of current African literature? It leads to an ongoing debate—what is African literature? Ngugi sees a structural problem however. He says that in a given discussion over this subject we may seesome of the following questions: "Are we talking of literature about Africa or the African experience? Was it literature written by Africans? What about a non-African who wrote about Africa? What if an African set his work in Greenland—does this qualify?" These are good questions, but, Ngugi explains, they were raised at the conference of African Writers of English Expression which included only English writing African authors because those that wrote in African languages were not invited.

31. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as Ng g wa Thiong o, James ngugi, wa Thiong o ngugi, Ng utilde;g itilde; There are 66 conversations about ngugi wa Thiong o s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/thiongongugiwa

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Photo by user 601TV / Flickr 1 picture add a picture Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Also known as: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o James Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Ngugi Ngugi Wa Thiong O ... Ngugi wa Thiongo Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Ngugi wa Thiong'o combine/separate works A grain of wheat 143 copies, 2 reviews Wizard of the crow 125 copies, 5 reviews Petals of blood 122 copies, review The river between 114 copies, 1 review Weep not, child 93 copies, review Devil on the Cross (African Writers) 62 copies, 1 review 60 copies, 1 review Matigari (African Writers Series) 36 copies, review I will marry when I want 16 copies, review 8 copies, review Detained : a writer's prison diary 8 copies, review The Trial of Dedan Kimathi 7 copies, review 7 copies, review Secret lives, and other stories 6 copies, review 5 copies, review see all 27 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars

32. BBC NEWS | Africa | Ngugi Laments Kenya Violence Renowned Kenyan novelist and playwright ngugi wa Thiong o tells the BBC his views on the unrest that has engulfed Kenya since disputed elections. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7180946.stm

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33. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Interviewed On His New Novel, Wizard Of Crow|4Nov06|Socialist One of Africa’s greatest novelists, ngugi wa Thiong’o, spoke to Ken Olende about his latest work, Wizard Of The Crow, and the state of the continent today http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=10062

34. Pantheon | Authors ngugi wa Thiong o is the author of, among other works, Petals of Blood, Weep Not Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, The Devil on the Cross, http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=52164

35. Extended Performance: The New Yorker The Kenyan novelist, playwright, journalist, and academic ngugi wa Thiong’o has written provocatively, in his book of essays “Penpoints, Gunpoints, http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060731crbo_books

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36. THE LITBLOG CO-OP: LBC Podcast #3: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Nominee ngugi wa Thiong o. Subjects Discussed Satirical plausibility, Wordsworth s willing suspension of disbelief, narrative explanation and http://lbc.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/lbc_podcast_3_n.html

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37. Heinemann Books: Authors: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ngugi is world famous for his novels from Weep Not, Child to Matigari and the impact of his plays, especially in Gikuyu, which led to his detention in Kenya http://books.heinemann.com/authors/367.aspx

Home About Us Contact Us Our Authors ... View Cart SEARCH BROWSE New Titles first hand Literacy ... Professional Development OTHER RESOURCES Author Guidelines Sales Representatives Heinemann Authors Ngugi wa Thiong'o Ngugi is world famous for his novels from Weep Not, Child to Matigari and the impact of his plays, especially in Gikuyu, which led to his detention in Kenya. He is now Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies in New York University. This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre Learn More Email this page to a friend. Available from Ngugi wa Thiong'o Books A Grain of Wheat (Paperback) Moving the Centre : The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (Paperback) The River Between (Paperback) Weep Not, Child (Paperback) Devil on the Cross (Paperback) Decolonising the Mind : The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback) I Will Marry When I Want (Paperback)

38. Eyes On Kenya » Eyes On Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Ethnic Cleansing And The Orang Kenyan novelist and play writer ngugi wa Thiong’o published a comment today from the diaspora in the United States via BBC news. He compares the incident of http://eyesonkenya.org/blog/?p=34

39. Kenyan Novelist Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Writes Truth To Power, Speaking A Language It He was 12 when it happened, when ngugi wa Thiong o witnessed the beating. Teachers at his British colonial school in the white highlands of Kenya caught http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600943.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'artsandliving'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Print This Article E-Mail This Article RSS News Feeds Top News What is RSS? All RSS Feeds E-mail Newsletters View a Sample and Sign Up Washington City Guide Movies Travel At Home ... Manage Your Newsletters Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o writes truth to power, speaking a language it can understand. Trouble is, sometimes power answers back. By Lynne Duke Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 17, 2006; Page D01 He was 12 when it happened, when Ngugi wa Thiong'o witnessed the beating. Teachers at his British colonial school in the "white highlands" of Kenya caught one of his school chums speaking Gikuyu. The indigenous language wasn't allowed at school. Only English was to be spoken. Punishment was in order. In front of a student assembly, two teachers held the boy down. They called him "monkey" while another teacher lashed him. The whip cut his skin. Blood appeared. Ngugi, in the assembly, was frightened. He registered, even then, that Gikuyu was not only a forbidden thing but a thing that brought pain and humiliation. Buy This Photo Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer and former political prisoner, is back with his first novel in 20 years.

40. The Sun News On-line Doesn’t the name ngugi wa Thiong’o ring a bell to you? A Kikuyu from Kenya, East Africa, ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in Kamirii, near Limuru, http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/literari/2006/jun/04/literari-4-0

Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News ... Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom Features Appetit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine ... Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us How Chinua Achebe inspired me By Henry Akubuiro (ifeanyi_mcdaniels@yahoo.com) Sunday, June 4, 2006 Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section As soon as he wends into the La Palm Beach Royal Hotel, Accra, Ghana, that Thursday morning, curiosity gathers apace. He walks with a little flagging composure, but his appearance bears no absolute obsolescent quaintness. For this occasion, he is spruced up with casual wears. His first play, The Black Hermit, was produced in Kampala in 1962. Two years later, he left for England to pursue graduate studies at Leeds University, England.

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