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	ICWT - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya in 1938 into a large peasant family.
		In 1967, Ngugi became lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nairobi, eventually becoming Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature.
		Ngugi's books have been translated into more than thirty languages and they continue to be the subject of books, critical monographs, and dissertations.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /icwt/news/ngugi_bio.html (635 words)

	ngugi2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		January) - Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born of Gikuyu descent in Kamiriithu Village, near Limuru in Kiambu District of Kenya, 12 miles north-east of Nairobi.
		While he was at Makerere, Ngugi became editor of the student journal of creative writing, Pinpoint, and became the key figure in monitoring Makerere University College's important contribution to the development of East African literature.
		During Ngugi's imprisonment, appeals, protest meetings in various parts of the world (notably in London) and delegations to Nairobi, including one from Nigeria led by Wole Soyinka, produced little effect before the change of govenment.
	web.udl.es /usuaris/m0163949/ngugi2.htm (1316 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi is particularly concerned with preserving native African languages, and in 1977 he wrote (with Ngugi wa Mirii) and directed a play, Ngaahika Ndeenda (tr.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o: an exploration of his writings.(Review)
		Kenyan writer and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong'o teaches a graduate course on Post Colonialism and African Narrative at University of California, Irvine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/ngugiwat1.asp (635 words)

	Kenyan writer working to preserve minority languages 01/02/03
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote his first novel in Gikuyu, his native tongue one of the first novels ever in that language on toilet paper while he was imprisoned for his involvement with a community theater and his writings about the social and political situation in Kenya.
		Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at Nairobi University in 1977.
		Ngugi's thoughts have always revolved around the need for Africa to find itself and its place in the world, and living away from his Kenya home has made the preoccupation even more intense, he said in an interview with Joe Munugu, which was published in Africa.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Astories/jan2/writer.html (1057 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		Ngugi refers in the title to the biblical theme of self-sacrifice, a part of the new birth: "unless a grain of wheat die." The allegorical story of one man's mistaken heroism and a search for the betrayer of a Mau Mau leader is set in a village, which has been destroyed in the war.
		Ngugi was imprisoned under Public Security Act for a year without trial for his involvement with a communal theatre in his home village.
	www.cx.unibe.ch /ens/cg/africanfiction/kenya/thiongo/bio.html (1222 words)

	A Conversation with E. San Juan Jr.
		Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California at Irvine.
		A Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, Ngugi is the author of various novels such as Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967) and Petals of Blood (1977).
		Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Robeson Award for Artistic Excellence, Political Conscience and Integrity (1992); Gwendolyn Brooks Center Contributors Award for Significant Contribution to the Black Literary Arts (1994); Fonlon-Nichols Prize (1996); and the Distinguished Africanist Award by the New York African Studies Association (1996).
	www.postcolonialweb.org /poldiscourse/pozo3.html (2228 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi, who returned to Kenya last month after 22 years of exile, is in the midst of a remarkable homecoming of his own, one that he says has inspired him but saddened him, too.
		Ngugi was resting in a Nairobi apartment between speaking engagements, four robbers barged in and brutalized him, his wife and a friend.
		Ngugi has said, however, that the Kenya of today is not the same place he left.
	www.multiworld.org /m_versity/news/ngugitext.htm (835 words)

	The African Commune > Michael Alexander Pozo interviews Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi: Intellectuals, from what we at the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California Irvine call marginalised languages -- we call them marginalised but not marginal -- have to realize that their primary audience is that of the language and cultural community that gave them.
		Ngugi: When my position on English and African languages became known through my book, Decolonizing the Mind in 1986, I was initially greeted with cynicism or downright hostility in some quarters.
		Ngugi: No, I don’t have one, but in one of my essays in my book, Moving the Center, I have argued for a greater degree of comparativity in the makeup of the various language/national literature departments.
	www.theafricancommune.com /print.php3?id_article=44 (2246 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Miscellaneous English Literature, 20th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Miscellaneous English Literature, 20th Century, Biographies
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o[engOO´gE wA tE-ong´gO] Pronunciation Key, 1938–, Kenyan writer also known as James Ngugi.
		Ngugi's litary targets have included governmental corruption, socioeconomic exploitation, and religious hypocrisy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NgugiwaT.html (391 words)

	California State University, Dominguez Hills \| Dominguez Hills Dateline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Author, educator, activist Ngugi wa Thiong’o of Kenya, director of the International Center for Writing and Translation headquartered at UC Irvine, will be presented with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters during California State University, Dominguez Hills’ 39th Annual Commencement Friday.
		Ngugi, born in Kenya under Great Britain’s colonial rule, survived Kenya’s war for independence and the dangers of the Mau Mau insurgency, only to be disappointed by the post-colonial government.
		Ngugi has risked his freedom, his career, his literary rights and his life for his critical writings about colonial rule, Christianity, and the post-colonial corruption and abuses of Kenyan citizens’ civil rights.
	www.csudh.edu /univadv/dateline/archives/20050516/campusnews/ngugi.htm (402 words)

	AWB Conference 2003 - Keynote Speakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan professor, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
		In 1977, Ngugi’s controversial play, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), written with Ngugi Wa Mirii, was performed in an open-air theater in Limuru, Kenya, acted by workers and peasants of the area.
		Unequivocally championing the cause of ordinary Kenyans, and committed to communicating with them in the languages of their daily lives, rather than in English, the inherited colonial tongue, Ngugi was arrested and imprisoned without charge in a maximum security prison at the end of the year.
	african.lss.wisc.edu /all/Studconference/conf03_keynote.shtml (1101 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		Wa Thiong'o was detained at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison without trial for one year, and the newly-installed Moi regime, under pressure from the international community, finally set him free.
		Wa Thiong'o was becoming an embarrassment to the state as Amnesty International had adopted him as a prisoner of conscience.
		But wa Thiong'o could not secure his old job at the University of Nairobi and after writing for a year, he was invited to London to launch Detained, his prison memoirs.
	www.nationmedia.com /eastafrican/26072004/Features/Part2-2.html (1134 words)

	UW-
		Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a prominent Kenyan writer and scholar of African literature.
		Ngugi wa Thiong’o has given a number of distinguished lectures including the 2003 Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in Johannesburg, South Africa, the 1999 Ashby lecture at Cambridge University; the 1996 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford, and the 1984 Robb Lectures at Auckland University.
		Ngugi was not reinstated to his job as professor at Nairobi University after his release from prison.
	accute.uwinnipeg.ca /index/newsflash-050316 (551 words)

	Untitled Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan writer, acclaimed as East Africa's foremost novelist.
		Ngugi wa Thiong’o is currently Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the position of Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
		Professor Ngugi was elected an Honorary Member in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dgalvan/asc/events.html (356 words)

	Literature as a weapon for change - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of Africa’s well-known writers, Ngugi WA Thiong'o, is in self-exile since 1982 and spent a few years in prison for his opposition to the Kenyan African Democratic Union (KADU) party government, led by Moi.
		Ngugi believes every writer naturally exist in politics and must wage a war against injustice: "What he can choose is one or the other side in the battlefield: the side of the people, or the side of those social forces and classes that try to keep the people down".
		According to Ngugi, Christian religion and English language were the two imperial spells that stole the soul and mind of Africans and destroyed their songs, dance and languages.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan232005/artic1.asp (1559 words)

	Case Western Reserve University
		Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the internationally aclaimed Kenyan essayist, novelist, playwright, and Human Rights advocator visits Case Western Resern University, October 19-20, 2005.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the distinguished African writer and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience (Kenya 1977), has been at the forefront of discussions on the role of indigenous languages in decolonization, particularly in Africa, and has provided inspiration to anti-colonialist struggles throughout the world.
		Ngugi's refusal to submit to shackles in Kamiti can be seen as an appropriate symbolic culmination of nearly twenty years of writing and lecturing in which he released himself, link by link, from the mental shackles of his colonial education, with all the attendant assumptions about race, class, and language.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/ethnic/events.htm (1581 words)

	Alta Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Assia Djebar, the pseudonym of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was born in 1936 in Cherchell, a small coastal town near Algiers.
		While he was barred by the State from jobs at colleges and universities in the country, Ngugi continued to be an uncomfortable voice for the government.
		Ngugi is the recipient, recently, of the 2001 Nonino Prize.
	www.literarytranslators.org /keynote.html (734 words)

	Ngugi page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Writing in Gikuyu, then, is Ngugi's way not only of harkening back to Gikuyu traditions, but also of acknowledging and communicating their present.
		Ngugi is not concerned primarily with universality, though models of struggle can always move out and be translated for other cultures, but with preserving the specificity of his individual groups.
		In a general statement, Ngugi points out that language and culture are inseparable, and that therefore the loss of the former results in the loss of the latter:
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Ngugi.html (411 words)

	<< Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Its principal constructors were Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Mirii, and the membership of the Centre.
		In contrast, as Ngugi reports in Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, while the principal contem-porary constructor of cultural studies at Kamiriithu was a man (Ngugi wa Thiong'o), the membership of Kamiriithu was at least two-thirds female.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o describes the work done at Kamiriithu in Detained: A Writer's Diary (London: Heinemann Educational Books 1981); in Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press 1983).
	www.utpjournals.com /jour.ihtml?lp=product/utq/652/652_wright.html (3212 words)

	Ngugi wa Mirii - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ngugi wa Mirii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi wa Mirii - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ngugi wa Mirii.
		Here you will find more informations about Ngugi wa Mirii.
		The orginal Ngugi wa Mirii article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ngugi-wa-Mirii.html (122 words)

	Community in Motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In addition, Freire assisted the government of Guinea-Bissau in instituting its literacy campaign, and educators like Ross Kidd in Botswana, Ngugi wa Mirii in Kenya, David Kerr in Zambia, and Steve Abah in Nigeria were familiar with the Freirian model, using elements of it in their own pioneering theatre for development projects.
		Kenya and Zimbabwe offer the contrast to this general picture of top-down “development.” The Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Center, headed by university professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o and adult literacy educator Ngugi wa Mirii, is a well-known story to African theatre scholars.
		What is less well known is the central role Ngugi wa Mirii has played in transporting this theatre model to Zimbabwe, whose socialist government, after achieving independence and African majority rule in 1979, was eager to counter its apartheid-like past by validating indigenous cultural practices.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/md/434/motion15.html (831 words)

	wa Thiong'o, Ngugi / unrast-Verlag
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938.
		Ngugi is an active campaigner for the African language and form, and he writes, travels and lectures extensively on this theme.
		With Micere Mugo, Ngugi has written the play 'The Trial of Dedan Kimathi'; he has also published the plays 'This Time Tomorrow' and 'The Black Hermit'.
	www.unrast-verlag.de /unrast,5,1,190.html (300 words)

	Mambogani > Discussion: Ngugi lecture :: Kenyan Forums, Africa Forums, Africa Chat, Kenya Chat Rooms, Kenya News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi says this cannot be done unless Africans use their own languages to write their histories and literature.
		Jan 17 2004, 06:09 PM Another aspect of the dispossession of one's language is the necessity - for mainly economic reasons - for writers to write in the language of the coloniser.
		Ngugi also implies that some writers choose to write in European languages because they regard them as "superior" in some way to their own languages.
	www.mambogani.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2096.html (7373 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938) Kenyan novelist, short-story writer and playwright.
		He published four novels in English, a fifth in both English and Kikuyu (the language of the people of the Kenyan highlands) and since 1982 has not written in English.
		Some of his work was published under the name James T. Ngugi.
	www.bloomsburymagazine.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=108587&bid=9 (128 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o
		Interview: Ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of creating literature in small languages to preserve world cultures (NPR Special)
		The gendered politics of untranslated language and aporia in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood.(Critical Essay) (Research in African Literatures)
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o: an exploration of his writings.(Review) (Africa)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0835542.html (396 words)

	African Writers Index
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o is world-famous for his novels from Weep Not, Child to Matigari and for the political impact of his plays, which led to his detention in Kenya.
		The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi without a trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in the prison.
		Ngugi and Micere Mugo have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the celebrated leaders of the Mau Mau revolution.
	www.geocities.com /africanwriters/Countries/AuthorsKenya.html (706 words)

	The New York Times > International > Africa > A Literary Lion Returns to a New, Still Dangerous, Kenya
		Ngugi wa Thiongo in 2001, then teaching at New York University.
		NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 15 - In "Homecoming," a collection of essays published 30 years ago, Ngugi wa Thiongo assessed various forms of violence, some of which he considered justified to achieve social ends and some of which he dismissed as just plain thuggery.
		An article on Aug. 16 about Ngugi wa Thiongo, a politically provocative writer who returned to Kenya after 22 years of exile and was promptly attacked brutally by robbers, misspelled the name of the language of the Kikuyu people, in which he writes.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/08/16/international/africa/16kenya.html?position=&ei=5088&en=15ef6afff59f3acd&ex=1250395200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1124884902-eqOWHz23ZqHKPeou//X7TQ (1049 words)

	The Zimbabwe Independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An article in the Herald on Monday by Ngugi wa Mirii titled “NGOs: wolves in sheep skin” was, as the saying goes, revealing.
		Wa Mirii confessed to never receiving any funding from government for his “development work” in Zimbabwe.
		This should be excellent “intelligence” for state security agents especially as Wa Mirii claims he has been working with these NGOs for over 20 years.
	www.theindependent.co.zw /news/2004/December/Friday3/muckr.html (2171 words)

	Heinemann: I Will Marry When I Want (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ngugi wa Mirii, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, New York University
		This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru.
		It proved so powerful, especially in its use of song, that it was banned and was probably one of the factors leading to Ngugi's detention without trial.
	www.boyntoncook.com /shared/products/90246.asp (184 words)

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