41. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 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. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ngugiw.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback 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. 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.

42. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Most African literature is oral. It includes stories, riddles, proverbs. and sayings. In Decolonizing the Mind, ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood. is http://www.glpinc.org/Classroom Activities/Kenya Articles/Ngugi Wa Thiong'o-On L

Most African literature is oral. It includes stories, riddles, proverbs and sayings. In Decolonizing the Mind , Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood. He says "I can vividly recall those evenings of storytelling around the fire side. It was mostly the grown ups telling the children but everybody was interested and involved. We children would retell the stories the following day to other children who worked in the fields." The stories main characters were usually animals. Ngugi said "Hare being small, weak, but full of innovative wit, was our hero. We identified with him as he struggled against the brutes of prey like lyon, leopard and hyena. His victories were our victories and we learnt that the apparently weak can outwit the strong. Accordiong to Ngugi's way of seeing, you can't study African literatures without studying the particular cultures and oral traditions from which Africans draw their plots, styles and metaphors. So where does all of this leave us in a discussion of current African literature? It leads to an ongoing debate—what is African literature? Ngugi sees a structural problem however. He says that in a given discussion over this subject we may seesome of the following questions: "Are we talking of literature about Africa or the African experience? Was it literature written by Africans? What about a non-African who wrote about Africa? What if an African set his work in Greenland—does this qualify?" These are good questions, but, Ngugi explains, they were raised at the conference of African Writers of English Expression which included only English writing African authors because those that wrote in African languages were not invited.

43. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: An Overview ngugi wa Thiong'o An Overview. ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Language Question in African Literature. ngugi on colonial education as alienating force http://www.thecore.nus.edu/landow/post/poldiscourse/ngugiov.html

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Overview Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Language Question Subversion versus Rejection: Can Postcolonial Writers Subvert the Codified Using the Language of the Empire? Establishing English Postcolonial Identity and the Position of English in African Literature ... Ngugi on "Christianity and Christian oriented education" Last Modified: 18 March, 2002

44. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: An Overview ngugi wa Thiong o An Overview. ngugi wa Thiong o on the Language Question; Subversion versus Rejection Can Postcolonial Writers http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/ngugiov.html

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45. Staging Liminality: Setting In Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The River Between Staging Liminality Setting in ngugi wa Thiong o s The River Between. Benjamin Graves 98, UTRA Fellow 1997. In The River Between http://www.postcolonialweb.org/ngugi/ngugi1.html

Staging Liminality: Setting in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between Benjamin Graves '98, UTRA Fellow 1997 In The River Between (1965), Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o uses a distinction in setting between two mountain ridges as an organizing conceit that dramatizes the antagonism between two competing native constituencies and their seemingly irreconcilable belief structures. Because the setting (presumably the late 1940's or early 1950's) precedes emergence of substantive attempts at decolonization, Ngugi's novel portrays not so much the conflict between "colonizer" and "colonized" but the internal conflicts and plural ambitions of native people themselves. The novel's opening situates the narrative's broader conflicts within a Kenyan landscape that has yet to experience the effects of British colonialism: The two ridges lay side by side. One was Kameno, the other was Makuyu. Between them was a valley. It was called the valley of life. Behind Kameno and Makuyu were many more valleys and ridges, lying without any discernible plan. They were like many sleeping lions which never woke. They just slept, the big deep sleep of their Creator. A river flowed through the valley of life ... The river was called Honia, which meant cure, or bring-back-life. Honia river never dried: it seemed to possess a strong will to live. scorning droughts and weather changes. (1) When you stood in the valley, the two ridges ceased to be sleeping lions united by their common source of life. They became antagonists. You could tell this, not by anything tangible but by the way they faced each other, like two rivals ready to come to blows in a life and death struggle for the leadership of this isolated region. (1)

46. Ngugi Wa Thiong O ngugi wa Thiong o. Choose any of the following links for ngugi wa Thiong o to go directly to that information or just scroll down the page http://bdagger.colorado.edu/~bhongale/ngugi.html

Ngugi wa Thiong'o Choose any of the following links for Ngugi wa Thiong'o to go directly to that information or just scroll down the page: Biography Works Publisher Similar Authors Biography Originally named James Thiong'o Ngugi, this politically active Kenyan writer changed his name in renouncement of Christianity because of the religion's colonial ties. He was born in 1938 and his education was a mix of Christianity and tradition. His family was involved in the Mau Mau resistance to the colonists, and this experience features prominently in a great deal of his writings. In 1963, Ngugi completed the Honors English program at Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda. He eventually became a professor at Nairobi University, having the intention of promoting interest in African writers. By 1977, he declared his intention of writing novels in Gikuyu (or Kikuyu), his native language, rather than in English as he had been doing. This was also the same year that he was arrested and detained for the following year because of the political message of his popular play I Will Marry When I Want . In 1980, he published the first modern novel written in Gikuyu

47. Staging Liminality: Setting In Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The River Between Staging Liminality Setting in ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between. Benjamin Graves '98, UTRA Fellow 1997. In The River Between ( 1965), Kenyan novelist ngugi wa Thiong'o uses a distinction http://www.cyberartsweb.org/landow/post/ngugi/ngugi1.html

Staging Liminality: Setting in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between Benjamin Graves '98, UTRA Fellow 1997 In The River Between (1965), Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o uses a distinction in setting between two mountain ridges as an organizing conceit that dramatizes the antagonism between two competing native constituencies and their seemingly irreconcilable belief structures. Because the setting (presumably the late 1940's or early 1950's) precedes emergence of substantive attempts at decolonization, Ngugi's novel portrays not so much the conflict between "colonizer" and "colonized" but the internal conflicts and plural ambitions of native people themselves. The novel's opening situates the narrative's broader conflicts within a Kenyan landscape that has yet to experience the effects of British colonialism: The two ridges lay side by side. One was Kameno, the other was Makuyu. Between them was a valley. It was called the valley of life. Behind Kameno and Makuyu were many more valleys and ridges, lying without any discernible plan. They were like many sleeping lions which never woke. They just slept, the big deep sleep of their Creator. A river flowed through the valley of life ... The river was called Honia, which meant cure, or bring-back-life. Honia river never dried: it seemed to possess a strong will to live. scorning droughts and weather changes. (1) When you stood in the valley, the two ridges ceased to be sleeping lions united by their common source of life. They became antagonists. You could tell this, not by anything tangible but by the way they faced each other, like two rivals ready to come to blows in a life and death struggle for the leadership of this isolated region. (1)

48. African Writers Series - Writer Details - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o(Kenya) ngugi wa Thiong o(Kenya), Writers Profile. ngugi wa Thiong o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. He was educated at the Alliance http://www.africanwriters.com/Writers/WriterTop.asp?cPK=Thiong'oN3056

49. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o encyclopediaEncyclopedia ngugi wa Thiong o, engOO gE wä tEong gO Pronunciation Key. Related content from HighBeam Research on ngugi wa Thiong o. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0835542.html

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50. ICWT - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Back ngugi wa Thiong o Director, International Center for Writing Translation. ngugi wa Thiong o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/news/ngugi_bio.html

Back Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family. As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau war of Independence, the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works. Ngugi burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit , at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962. In a highly productive literary period, Ngugi published and wrote stories, plays, novels, and a Sunday newspaper column. In that period, his novel, Weep Not Child , was published to critical acclaim in 1964. This publication was followed by The River Between and A Grain of Wheat , a turning point in the formal and ideological direction of his works. In 1967, Ngugi became lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nairobi, eventually becoming Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature. He taught there until 1977 while also serving as Fellow in Creative writing at Makerere in 1969-1970, and as Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University in 1970-1971. In 1969, his first volume of literary essays, Homecoming , appeared in print.

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52. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Literature ngugi wa Thiong o, Literature. ngugi wa Thiong o Includes a biography and a list of works. Several of these include plot summaries http://www.art-5.com/literature/authors/n/ngugi_wa_thiong'o/

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Literature Art Literature Authors N ... Ngugi wa Thiong'o Ngugi wa Thiong'o Includes a biography and a list of works. Several of these include plot summaries, and excerpts from book reviews and from the books themselves. Also includes links to similar authors. Release Ngugi Letter by nineteen American authors expressing their concern at the detention of Ngugi, published in The New York Review of Books. Kenyan Writer Jailed Article by Edward Hower from The New York Review of Books requesting that Ngugi be freed. Staging Liminality: Setting in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between Essay critiquing The River Between. Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of Blood Analysis of the 1977 novel "Petals of Blood" by an English literature graduate student at San Francisco State University. Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Description of Simon Gikandi's study of Ngugi's works. Includes chapter contents and ordering information. Emory University Post-Colonial Studies: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Includes biographical background, discussion of major themes, and descriptions of the author's works.

53. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia ngugi wa Thiong o Britannica Student Encyclopedia. (born 1938). East Africa s leading novelist, ngugi wa Thiong o is the pen name of James Thiong o ngugi. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=298102&query=ngugi wa thiong'o&ct=ebi

54. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o --  Encyclopædia Britannica ngugi wa Thiong o Encyclopædia Britannica Article. MLA style ngugi wa Thiong o. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=57045&tocid=0&query=ngugi wa thiong'o

55. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o ngugi wa Thiong’o. Kenyan writer. His work includes essays, plays, short stories, and novels. Imprisoned after the performance http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0024317.html

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56. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ngugi wa Thiong o. He was born in 1938. He is a Kenyan writer in exile. ngugi wa THIONG’O Kenyan writer in exile ngugi wa Thiong o Kenyan writer in exile. http://www.linguistic-declaration.org/SUP-gb.CFM?ID=2

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59. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. ngugi wa Thiong’o. ( ng ´g wä t ng´g ) (KEY) , 1938–, Kenyan writer also known as James ngugi. He studied in Uganda and England. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ng/NgugiwaT.html

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