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    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu pronunciation: [ᵑɡoɣe ðiɔŋɔ]; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as...
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  • Decolonising the Mind (category Works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
    the African writer, as Oliver Lovesey, a scholar of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notes. In his book on Ngũgĩ and his work, Lovesey quotes Albert S. Gérard on this...
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    Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Writing. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. His family was deeply impacted by the bloody British suppression...
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    Want), co-written with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1977) The Times, June 8, 2008: Ngũgĩ wa Mirii: Modern African playwright "Ngũgĩ wa Mirii – Writer(s) – Asymptote...
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  • Kimani). Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ was born in Kenya into a family of writers that includes her father, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and her brother Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ. She studied...
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    Vice Chancellor 2020 - to date Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Gikuyu-language author, father of author and professor Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ Wanjiku Kabira, literature professor...
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    asked to read a novel written by a student named James Ngugi (later known as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o) called Weep Not, Child. Impressed, he sent it to Alan...
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  • Matigari ma Njiruungi (category Novels by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
    Matigari ma Njiruungi is a 1986 novel by author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The story begins with Matigari burying his weapons under a fig tree. After killing...
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    early 2000s, Wahome Mutahi followed in the footsteps of the legendary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o when he, through Igiza Productions, teamed up with Tirus Gathwe and...
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    including Nuruddin Farah, Ali Mazrui, David Rubadiri, Okello Oculi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, John Ruganda, Paul Theroux, Nobel Prize laureate V. S. Naipaul, and...
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