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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Ngugi wa Thiongo Jump to: navigation search Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Born January 5, 1938 (age 72) Kamiriithu Kenya Occupation Writer Language English, Gĩkũyũ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (pronounced ɡoɣe wa ðiɔŋɔ] ; born January 5, 1938 ) 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 exile following his release from a Kenyan prison in 1977; living in the United States , he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since also taught at New York University , with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies , and the University of California, Irvine "The reason why Ngugi is the greatest writer to have come from East and Central Africa is because, like Peter Abrahams in South Africa and Chinua Achebe in West Africa, he writes about big subjects." "The three writers are for literature what Kwame Nkrumah Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela are for politics."

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Ngugi wa Thiongo (born ) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. Gikuyu descent, and baptized James Ngugi. While attending mission school, he became a devout Christian . He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda , in 1963; during his education, a play of his, The Black Hermit , was produced in Kampala in 1962. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion; he lost his stepbrother, and his mother was tortured. He published his first novel, Weep Not, Child , in , which he wrote while attending Leeds University in England . It was the first novel in English to be published by an East African. His second novel, The River Between ), had as its background the Mau Mau rebellion, and described an unhappy romance between Christians and non-Christians. His novel A Grain of Wheat marked his embrace of Fanonist Marxism . He subsequently renounced English, Christianity, and the name James Ngugi as colonialist play Ngaahika Ndeenda I Will Marry When I Want ) provoked President Daniel arap Moi to order his arrest. While in prison, he wrote another English novel

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Ngugi wa Thiongo - Definition (born ) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Limuru in the Kiambu district of Kenya, of descent, and baptized James Ngugi. While attending mission school, he became a devout Christian . He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda , in 1963; during his education, a play of his, The Black Hermit , was produced in Kampala in 1962. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion; he lost his stepbrother, and his mother was tortured. He published his first novel, Weep Not, Child , in , which he wrote while attending Leeds University in England . It was the first novel in English to be published by an East African. His second novel, The River Between ), had as its background the Mau Mau rebellion, and described an unhappy romance between Christians and non-Christians. His novel A Grain of Wheat marked his embrace of Fanonist Marxism . He subsequently renounced English, Christianity, and the name James Ngugi as colonialist Swahili . The uncensored political message of his play Ngaahika Ndeenda I Will Marry When I Want ) provoked President Daniel arap Moi to order his arrest. While detained in the Kamithi Maximum Security Prison, he wrote another English novel

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11. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Home Page Contact Ngugi wa Thiong'o Distinguished Professor University of California, Irvine Comparative Literature and English 279 Humanities Instructional Building http://www.ngugiwathiongo.com/

welcome.shtml Contact Ngugi wa Thiong'o Distinguished Professor University of California, Irvine Comparative Literature and English 279 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-2651 Barbara Caldwell 949-824-6722 (voice) 949-824-6723 (fax) barbara.caldwell@uci.edu April 2010 Wednesday, April 14 @7:00 pm CORAL GABLES, FL reading and signing, co-sponsored by the University of Miami. Address: 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134. Introduction by Chenjerai Hove, writing in residence at the University Thursday, April 15th @7:30pm NEW YORK CITY Revolution Books Benefit at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South LA Times Festival of Books Fiction: An African Landscape *please note all session titles are works in progress and subject to change. Saturday, April 24, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Young Hall CS24, UCLA Campus Moderator: Brigid Hughes Panelists: Chris Abani, Kwei Quartey, Ngugi wa Thiong’o *please note all session titles are works in progress and subject to change. A book signing will follow the hour-long panel session. Panel participants will be escorted to the signing area.

12. Verba: Complete Text: Essay And Bibliography Des calvaires de la femme africaine dans la creation romanesque de Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ngugi Wa Thiongo et Ahmadou Kourouma. Bridges An African Journal of English http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/all.html

Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20, 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope, herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... Rereading, willful misreading, and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized 'literature'" that tends to black out Black and blanch out Woman. Kofi Owusu, "Canons Under Siege" [T]he collective effort has to emerge from the ranks of those whose life is theorized. Sisi Maqagi, "Who Theorizes" Feminist criticism of African literatures is a steadily growing field. The following bibliography includes articles and essays in English and French which examine African literatures (fiction, poetry, drama and oral literature) from a feminist or womanist perspective. It does not include, unfortunately, criticism in other languages such as Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu, Portuguese, German, or Arabic due to my own inability to read those languages. Also, authors whose works are originally written in languages other than French or English, such as Ngugi wa Thiongo's plays and the novel, Devil on the Cross , and Nawal al Sa'dawi's works, may be under-represented in this bibliography, as criticism often tends to be written in the language of the work being addressed.

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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.

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The Kenya of his birth and youth was a British settler colony (1895-1963). As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau War of Independence (1952-1962), the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works. He has also continued to speak around the world at numerous universities and as a distinguished speaker. These appearances include: the 1984 Robb Lectures at Auckland University in New Zealand; the1996 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford University; the 1999 Ashby Lecture at Cambridge; and the 2006 MacMillan Stewart Lectures at Harvard. He is recipient of many honors including the 2001 Nonino International Prize for Literature and seven honorary doctorates.

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Ngugi wa Thiongo (1938- ). Kenya. One of Africa's most accomplished and prominent novelists was born in 1938 in an area known at the time as the "White Highlands," part of the British-ruled Kenya Colony. This context proves important in his early novels, which deal with the dilemmas of growing up in two worlds: as a Kikuyu/African and a Westerner/Christian. He was educated at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Leeds. His early works, Weep Not Child The River Between , and A Grain of Wheat , depict the conflict of cultures and the role of Christianity, English education, and the increasingly oppressive treatment of the Kikuyu and other Africans, whose land had been taken by the colonists. Ngugi taught at Makerere University, University of Nairobi, and Northwestern University. While at the University of Nairobi, he chose to write in his native Kikuyu to help revitalize indigenous languages. His subsequent writing, e.g. Petals of Blood , is critical of the corrupt politicians and other personalities of post-independence Kenya. Such politically charged writing led to his 1977 arrest and detention. After his release he went into exile, and was never reinstated as professor at the University of Nairobi. Ngugi remains in self-imposed exile, and taught at Yale University for several years before joining the faculty of NYU in 1993. (RN) Weep Not Child . 1964. London: Heinemann. The River Between . 1965. London: Heinemann. A Grain of Wheat . 1967. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975.

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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.

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Wizard of the Crow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . Please help by adding relevant internal links , or by improving the article's layout (June 2010) Wizard of the Crow Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Country Kenya Genre(s) Novel Publication date ISBN OCLC Number Wizard of the Crow (2006) is a novel written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o , his first novel in more than twenty years. The story is set in the imaginary Free Republic of Abruria, autocratically governed by one man, known only as the Ruler. In addition, the novel received the 2008 Tähtifantasia Award for the best foreign fantasy novel released in Finland in 2007. edit References http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/kenya/ngugi2.htm http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/11/14/thiong_o/ v d ... e Works by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Novels Weep Not, Child The River Between A Grain of Wheat A Meeting in the Dark ... Matigari ma Njiruungi Wizard of the Crow Children's books Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief Njamba Nene's Pistol Plays The Black Hermit This Time Tomorrow Ngaahika Ndeenda Short Stories Secret Lives, and Other Stories

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