wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ
About Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Biography (Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin)
Biography (Global Social Theory)
Jaggi, Maya. “Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.” The Guardian, 2010
Reviews
Sampson, Fiona. “The Best Recent Poetry Collections-Review Roundup.” The Guardian, 10 Oct. 2020
Kendall, George. “The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi.” Booklist, vol. 117, no. 4, 2020
Bokemper, Daniel. “Minutes of Glory and Other Stories.” World Literature Today, vol. 93, no. 3, 2019
Lewontin, Amy. “Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir.” Library Journal, vol. 143, no. 4, 2018
Serpell, Namwali. "Kenya in Another Tongue." The New York Review of Books, 12 Apr. 2017
Standage, Misty. “Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer’s Awakening.” Library Journal, vol. 141, no. 14, 2016
Kamoche, Ken N. "What to Read Now: Kenya." World Literature Today, vol. 85, no. 5, 2011
Phillipson, Robert, and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. “Reviewing a Book and How It Relates to ‘Global’ English Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow.” European English Messenger, vol. 16, no. 1, 2007
Updike, John. "Extended Performance." New Yorker, vol. 82, no. 23, 2006
Jaggi, Maya. “Decolonise the Mind.” The Guardian, 9 Sep. 2006
Interviews
Simon, Scott. “Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o Says Prison Formed Him As A Writer.” NPR, 10 Oct. 2020
Shringarpure, Bhakti, and Monica Popescu. “The Cold War and the African Writer: An Interview with Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 3, 2019
Jaggi, Maya. “Ngugi wa Thiong’o: 'I Don’t Think We Were Meant to Come Out Alive'.” The Guardian, 28 Jan. 2006
Criticism
Smith, Craig. “Conservative Aesthetics and Radical Politics in the Early Work of Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o.” Postcolonial Text, vol. 15, no. 2, 2020
Chesney, Duncan McColl. “The Politics of the Novel Circa 1965: Reading Brooke-Rose with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.” Journal of Language, Literature & Culture, vol. 66, no. 2, 2019
Enyi, Amaechi Uneke, and Edwin Chiekpezie Orji. “Lexical Cohesion in Non-Fictional Narrative as Discourse: A Study of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Decolonizing the Mind.” International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2019
Maranga-Musonye, Miriam. “The Fanon Factor in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Children’s Fiction.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 3, 2019
Rajbhandari, Kritish. “Beyond the Ethics of Nationalism and Betrayal: Silence, Secrecy, and the Subaltern in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 2, 2019
Pucherova, Dobrota. “Wizard of the Crow (2006) by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o as a Postcommunist Novel.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 55, no. 1, 2019
Boizette, Pierre. “Défense et Illustration Des Langues Africaines: Linguistic Commitment and Critical Thought in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s and Kwasi Wiredu’s Works.” Itinéraires: Littérature, Textes, Cultures, vol. 1, 2019
Lare, Damlègue. “Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari as a Paradigm.” Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Kalu and Falola (eds.), 2019
Bie, Precious Dumka. “The African Writer and Commitment in Art: A Critical Discourse of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Literature of Commitment, Social Vision and Stylistic Use of Satire in Matigari.” Scholedge International Journal of Multidisciplinary & Allied Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2018
Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí. “Tales from the Corpolony: Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow and the Dictator-Novel in the Time of Transition.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 3, 2018
Zuhmboshi, Eric Nsuh. “Describing the Politics of Sovereignty in Postcolonial Africa: Rereading Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Alobwed’Epie’s The Death Certificate.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 3, 2018
Idowu Adeniyi, Emmanuel. “Bourgeois Tensions, Marxist Economics and Aphaeresis of Communal Spirit in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross.” English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017
Nesbitt, L. "Postcolonial Void: Achebe, Vassanji, Wa Thiong'o." New Black & African Writing: A Critical Anthology, vol. 1, 2009
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
Wrestling with the Devil. A Prison Memoir (2018)
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening (2016)
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2012)
Dreams in a Time of War (2010)
Detained: A Writers Prison Diary (1981)
Novels
Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (2016)
Wizard of the Crow (2006)
Matigari (1986)
Devil on the Cross (1980)
Petals of Blood (1977)
A Grain of Wheat (1967)
The River Between (1965)
Weep Not, Child (1964)
Children’s and Young Adults’ Books
Njamba Nene’s Pistol (1990)
Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (1988)
Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (1986)
Short Story Collections
Secret Lives and Other Stories (1975)
Plays/Scripts
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii.I Will Marry When I Want (1977)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976)
The Black Hermit (1963)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Despite Decades of Exile, I Still Feel the Pull of My Homeland.” The Guardian, 9 Sep. 2015
In the Name of the Mother (2013)
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (1998)
Writers in Politics (1997)
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (1993)
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)
Barrell of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983)
„Education for a National Culture.“ Ufahamu, vol. 12, no. 2, 1983
Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: “Europe and the West Must also be Decolonised”. YouTube, 10 Sep. 2019
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Minutes of Glory | Town Hall Seattle. YouTube, 13 Apr. 2019
2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o: Decolonizing the Mind, YouTube. 30 Apr. 2018
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, "Wrestling with the Devil" YouTube, 10 May 2018
Decolonizing One's Mind by Author Ngũgĩ wa Tiong'o. YouTube, 21 Mar. 2017
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Interview: Memories of Who We Are. YouTube, 13 Oct. 2015
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and His Son Mukoma on Family and Writing. BBC, 5 Jul. 2013
African Views: Chinua Achebe & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. YouTube, 1998