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Thiong'o, Ngugi wa was born on January 5, 1938 in Limuru, Kenya.
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Book Description Who is Matigari? Is he young or old? Dead or living... or even Jesus Christ? These are the questions asked by the people when a man who has survived a war for independence emerges from the mountains. Matigari is in search of his family, the rebuilding of his home and the start of a new and peaceful future. But his search becomes a quest for truth and justice as he finds the people still dispossessed and the land he loves ruled by corruption, fear, and misery. Rumor springs up that a man with superhuman powers has risen to renew the freedom struggle. The novel races towards its climax as Matigari realizes that words alone cannot defeat the enemy. He vows to use force of arms to achieve his true liberation. Lyrical and hilarious in turn, Matigari is a memorable satire on the betrayal of human ideals and on the bitter experience of post-independence African society.
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( In this play, Remi, the first of his tribe to go to uni...)
In this play, Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, ponders whether or not he should return to his people. Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town?
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(Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o and...)
Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi's life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights' response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical "trial" at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is "an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement." Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press: Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060) Beti, The Poor Christ of Bomba (ISBN 9781577664185) Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192) Equiano, Equiano's Travels (ISBN 9781577664871) Head, The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601) Head, Maru (ISBN 9781478607618) Head, When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595) La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251) Marechera, The House of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730) Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151) Ngugi-Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (ISBN 9781478611318) Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011) Oyono, Houseboy (ISBN 9781577669883) Oyono, The Old Man and the Medal (ISBN 9781478609582) p'Bitek, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723) Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575) Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)
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(Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( Author ) ON Feb-07...)
Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( Author ) ON Feb-07-2002, Paperback - Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Penguin Books Ltd
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(Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old titl...)
Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title. One of the completely new pieces, "Freedom of Expression," was written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa and seven other writers from execution in Nigeria. He has rewritten almost all of the other pieces which have been kept. Ngugi says "It seemed to me how ironic the title "Writers in Politics" had turned out to be. In re-issuing these essays I didn't want to lose that nexus between culture and power which had been captured by the title."
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(Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, ...)
Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people from the city? Should he return to Thoni, his brother's widow, whom he has had to marry under tribal custom? Or should he continue to be a 'black hermit' in the town, visiting the night clubs with his friend, Jane? Should he be supporting the Africanist Party when people feel that the colonial oppression has just been replaced by another form? These are the dramatic conflicts in this play. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is best known internationally as a novelist as well as a playwright. He wrote "This Time Tomorrow" (published in African Short Stories), The Black Hermit (1968), and, with Micere Githae Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976), all of which had great social and political impact. His detention without trial in 1978 was probably due to the staging of the Gikuyu play, "Ngaahika Ndeenda" at the Kamirithu Cultural Centre, co-authored with Ngugu wa Mirii. The play is published in English as I will Marry when I Want. Ngugi continues to strongly advocate writing in indigenous languages. His two titles - Caaitani Mutharabaini and A Grain of Wheat - were among the recipients of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century Award.
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(Ngugi takes the reader back to the days preceding Kenya's...)
Ngugi takes the reader back to the days preceding Kenya's independence. Mugo, a farmer and hero in the eyes of the villagers, is asked to deliver a speech during the Uhuru celebrations, to be held in memory of his friend Kihika. He refuses to make a speech and turns out to be a traitor.
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(The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer Set in t...)
The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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(Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circu...)
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
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(Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the is...)
Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.' East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda): EAEP
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(This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu...)
This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru. It proved so powerful, especially in its use of song, that it was banned and was probably one of the factors leading to Ngugi's detention without trial. The original Gikuyu edition went to three printings in the first three months of publication.
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(El autor es el novelista y ensayista más importante de Áf...)
El autor es el novelista y ensayista más importante de África del Este. Ha escrito diecinueve obras de ficción y no ficción, drama y literatura para niños. "Matigari" es una novela escrita originalmente en kikuyu que guarda la forma y el estilo de las historias contadas en esa lengua, donde están presentes repeticiones, mitos, milagros, y muestra mediante esa expresión una de las formas de las luchas neocoloniales. El nuevo realismo de la novela -a veces discutido- es tan contundente que, muy poco tiempo después de su publicación en Kenia, el héroe fue confundido por el gobierno con un agitador revolucionario que el mismo gobierno decidió perseguir y arrestar. Cuando se descubrió la identidad ficticia del personaje, el libro se confiscó en todo el país. Esta edición, traducida por Rafael Segovia del inglés de la versión publicada por la Africa World Press, es la primera que se hace de esta novela en español.
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(The puzzling murder of three African directors of a forei...)
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human- rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.
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(Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau w...)
Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family must decide where their loyalties lie.
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(The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel—his best-k...)
The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel—his best-known work Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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(Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old titl...)
Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Niger Delta activists and writers from execution in Nigeria. Kenya: EAEP
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(In this collection of essays and lectures Ngugi is concer...)
In this collection of essays and lectures Ngugi is concerned with moving the center in two sensesbetween nation and within nationsin order to free world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race, and gender.
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Thiong'o, Ngugi wa was born on January 5, 1938 in Limuru, Kenya.
Bachelor, Makerere University College, Uganda, 1963. Bachelor, Leeds University, England, 1964.
Lecturer literature, U. Nairobi, Kenya, 1967-1969; then senior lecturer, chairman literature Department, University Nairobi. Creative writing fellow Makerere U., 1969-1970. Visiting associate professor Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1970-1971.
(Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, ...)
(In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the cen...)
(Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o and...)
(Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old titl...)
(The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer Set in t...)
(In this collection of essays and lectures Ngugi is concer...)
(The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel—his best-k...)
(Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the is...)
(Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circu...)
(The puzzling murder of three African directors of a forei...)
( In this play, Remi, the first of his tribe to go to uni...)
(Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( Author ) ON Feb-07...)
(This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu...)
(Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau w...)
(A summary of some of the issues in which Ngugi has been p...)
(Ngugi takes the reader back to the days preceding Kenya's...)
(El autor es el novelista y ensayista más importante de Áf...)
(Book Description Who is Matigari? Is he young or old? Dea...)
(Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old titl...)
(1986, Paperback, 85 pages)
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