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   Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu pronunciation: [ᵑɡoɣe wá ðiɔŋɔ]; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist". He began writing in English, switching to write primarily in Gikuyu .

   • Occupation: Writer

   • Language: English, Kikuyu

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     Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: “Europe and the West must also be decolonised”

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     What Matters to Me And Why: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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3. ngugiwathiongo.com › aboutABOUT – Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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   Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of ...

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Decolonising_the_MindDecolonising the Mind - Wikipedia

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   Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by the Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates linguistic decolonization, is one of ...

   • Author: Ngu˜g˜ıwa Thiong’o
   • Genre: Non-fiction

   • Publish Year: 1986
   • Pages: 114

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   What happened to Mwangi?

   • His family was caught up in the Mau Mau Uprising; his half-brother Mwangi was actively involved in the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (in which he was killed), another brother was shot during the State of Emergency, and his mother was tortured at Kamiriithu home guard post.

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   Does Ngugi use African language?

   • Many of the ideas are familiar from Ngugi’s earlier critical books, and earlier lectures, elsewhere. But the material here has a new context and the ideas a new focus. This leading African writer presents the arguments for using African language and forms after successfully using an African language himself.

   DECOLONISING THE MIND – Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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   Is Ngugi an Afro-European literature?

   • In retrospect that literature characterised by Ngugi as Afro-European – the literature written by Africans in European languages – will come to be seen as part and parcel of the uneasy period between colonialism and full independence, a period equally reflected in the continent’s political instability as it attempts to find its feet.

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   Did NGG use Gikuyu as a language?

   • Gikandi notes that by the time Ngũgĩ accepted a fellowship in the mid-1990s at New York University, "it was clear that Ngũgĩ's effort to use Gikuyu as the language of both his fiction and critical discourse had been defeated by the reality of exile and American professional life."

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6. www.npr.org › 2020/10/10 › 922393253Interview: 'The Perfect Nine,' By Ngugi wa Thiong'o : NPR

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   Oct 10, 2020 · Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a perennial favorite for the Literature Nobel. He hasn't won yet — but he does have a new book out, a novel in verse that tells the origin story of Kenya's Gĩkũyũ people.

7. ngugiwathiongo.com › decolonising-the-mindDECOLONISING THE MIND – Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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   Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ’s best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to ...

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9. www.goodreads.com › author › showNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Author of A Grain of Wheat) - Goodreads

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   Ngũgĩ 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. Ngũgĩ's family belonged to the Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Gikuyu. His father, Thiong'o. Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright ...

10. www.theguardian.com › books › 2023Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African ...

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    Jun 13, 2023 · “Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o failure to win 2019 Nobel prize for literature shock pipo.” BBC News Pidgin, October 2019 “Ngũgĩ, 82, has been tipped to win for a decade.