Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o won the Lotus Prize for Literature in 1973. He is the author of such celebrated novels as Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Wizard of the Crow (2004). He faced harsh repression for his work, including a year in prison, where he wrote Devil on the Cross on prison-issue toilet paper.
- Secure the BaseINR 495
For more than sixty years, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been writing fearlessly on the questions, challenges, histories and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work,...
- The Upright RevolutionINR 799
Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o offers in The...
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Gregory Elliott
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Mubarak Ali
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