wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ

About Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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

Kimani, Peter. “Bank Heists, Political Satire and Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Top 10 Books about Kenya.” The Guardian, 14 Mar. 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

Bausells, Marta. “Tips, Links and Suggestions: What are you Reading this Week?” The Guardian, 8 Jun. 2015

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

Khelef, Mohammed. “Ngugi wa Thiong'o: 'African Languages Need to Talk to Each Other'.” DW, 19 Jun. 2018

Marshell, Kyla. “Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: 'Resistance is the Best Way of Keeping Alive'.” The Guardian, 12 Mar. 2018

J aggi, 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)