'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take'...
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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...
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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...
Barack Obama, via Facebook "A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships. " The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's...
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Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman. As Wariinga struggles to survive, she...
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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...
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A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas,...
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Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son...
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"The River Between is ... a sensitive novel about the Kikuyu in the melting-pot that sometimes touches on the grandeur of tap-root simplicity. Waiyaki, valuing the old folk-strength...
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A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening...
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courageIn these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn...
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The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school,...
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Waiyaki wächst in der traditionellen Dorfgemeinschaft des Gikuyu-Stammes auf und wird von seinem Vater als spiritueller Führer und Erneuerer seines Volkes eingeweiht. Er besucht eine...
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From an exiled Kenyan novelist comes this magisterial comic novel that reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African...
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A New York Times Editors' Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries ... a] thrilling testament to the human spirit. "--Ariel...
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Un compendio de los temas centrales de la obra del autor: laconfrontación entre el neocolonialismo y la clase trabajadora, y sureflejo en la cultura africana. Descolonizar la mente...
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An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favoured for the Nobel Prize, endured in a Kenyan jail...
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'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece' Sunday...
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. * ''One of the greatest writers of our time'' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about...
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