Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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 Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute insight into the human psyche and politics, Wa Thiong’o conjures up a fantastic fable about how and why...

Relish a brief encounter with Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Africa's foremost voice of resistance, in this fierce collection of stories about defiance, sacrifice, and survival. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. In these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. From fighters taking up arms against colonial rule...

A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinking Who owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. Intricate, nuanced and accessible, it...

The great Kenyan writer's influential novel, written in prison, offering a powerful critique of the 'Satan of capitalism' and its effect on postcolonial Kenya. A legendary work of African literature, Devil on the Cross is one of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's enduring fame. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work...

Legendary writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o's debut novel, a powerful story about the tragic effects of colonialism on the lives of ordinary people. ‘It is not much that a man can do without a piece of land’ Njoroge has big dreams for the future. Unlike his brothers — Kamau, an apprentice craftsman, and Boro, uncertain and scarred by violence — he...

A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinking. Who owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. Intricate, nuanced, and accessible, it...

Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth...