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	Ngugi wa Thiong'o
		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 had resigned from his post at Nairobi University as a protest against government interference in the university, be he joined the faculty in 1973, becoming an associate professor and chairman of the department of literature.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ngugiw.htm (1524 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Ngugi wa Thiongo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu[?].
		Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in the Kiambu district of Kenya, of Gikuyu descent, and baptized James Ngugi.
		He subsequently renounced English, Christianity, and the name James Ngugi as colonialist; he changed his name to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and began to write in his native Gikuyu.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ng/Ngugi_wa_Thiongo (403 words)

	FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE - Message Board - ezboard.com
		The sadistic attack on visiting Kenyan literary icon Ngugi wa Thiongo and rape of his wife Njeeri wa Ngugi were clearly geared towards humiliating and traumatising the couple on the occasion of their triumphant homecoming.
		Ngugi wa Thiongo made bitter attacks on the persons and reigns of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, but no such terror was visited on him and his family during both these eras.
		When Ngugi visited the home of his in laws, it was in the convoy of vehicles, with Ngugi and his wife riding in a Mitsubishi Pajero, again considered a mark of opulence.
	p072.ezboard.com /fmdosisloungefrm2.showMessage?topicID=47.topic (1246 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o (born 1938) was Kenya's most famous writer.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o (formerly James Ngugi and known generally as Ngugi) was born in Limuru, Kenya, on January 5, 1938.
		Ngugi said that it was his imprisonment that persuaded him to persist in writing novels and plays in Gikuyu so that he could convey his message directly to the exploited masses among his people.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ngugi-wa-thiongo (895 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	Paul Dorn: Ngugi wa Thiongo's "Petals of Blood" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ngugi is perhaps the most persistent literary voice in Africa condemning the depredations of imperialism, the highest form of capitalism.
		Ngugi came of age politically in an environment and a continent still burdened with the detritus of Stalinism, a reactionary perversion of Marxism, fusing nationalism onto proletarian political movements.
		Ngugi's frequent assertion of "workers and peasants" is reminiscent of a Maoist formulation, wrongly suggesting an equivalent weight of these class groupings.
	www.runmuki.com.cob-web.org:8888 /paul/writing/ngugi.html (3941 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ.
		Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in Kiambu district, of Kĩkũyũ descent, and baptised James Ngugi.
		He subsequently renounced English, Christianity, and the name James Ngugi as colonialist; he changed his name to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and began to write in his native Gĩkũyũ and Swahili.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ngugi_wa_Thiongo (866 words)

	THREE WISE MEN - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Despite criticism leveled against Professor wa Thiongo, five of his six children from his first marriage are US educated and based abroad, and the sixth has a degree from his alma mater, the University of Nairobi.
		It is a blow to Professor wa Thiongo’s legacy and beliefs, to come home and find that intellectual growth has been relegated to obscurity and growth of body weight propagated in it’s place.
		Professor wa Thiongo once interestingly locked horns with the University of Nairobi senate, because of being denied elevation to associate professorship, on the grounds that he did not possess a doctorate degree.
	p072.ezboard.com /fmdosisloungefrm2.showMessage?topicID=45.topic (1436 words)

	Tin House :: Back Issues : Issue 11
		It was 1986, and the hero of Ngugi wa Thiongo's novel, Matigari, was not only emerging from his hiding place in the woods, but from the page on which he existed.
		Ngugi's novel resonated so deeply with average Kenyans partly because he wrote in his native Kikuyu, a switch he had made during 1978, in prison, when he started writing his first Kikuyu novel, Devil on the Cross, on toilet paper.
		Ngugi was told he would be arrested if he returned, and he has never gone back.
	www.tinhouse.com /mag/back_issues/archive/issues/issue_11/matigari.html (540 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiongo (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		'''Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o''' (born 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ;.
		Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in the Kiambu district of Kenya, of Kĩkũyũ descent, and baptized James Ngugi.
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	ngugi-wa-thiongo.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (526 words)

	"I Will Marry When I Want" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For Ngugi and many writers majority government failed the people because it simply continued the exploitive and repressive structures of colonialism.
		The message stayed the same.") Through this play, Ngugi is protesting the current government (the 1977 government of Jomo Kenyatta, who became President at independence in 1963 and was the great revolutionary hope for the people).
		Ngugi seems to be using them to organize the play, to appeal to his audience, to write his and their protest.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~carlisle/Postcolonial/Ngugi/I_Will_Marry.html (873 words)

	MavicaNET - Ngugi wa Thiongo (1938- ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Decolonizing the Mind, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, began a very successful career writing in English before turning to work almost entirely in his native Gikuyu.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/bul/39408.html (626 words)

	::fibreculture:: Support Ngugi and Njeeri Wa Thiongo Wa Ngugi
		http://acas.prairienet.org/alerts/alert_kenya.html Association of Concerned Africa Scholars ACAS Alert: Ngugi and Njeeri Wa Thiongo Wa Ngugi January 14, 2005 Dear Friends, As you may already know, world renowned Kenyan playwright, novelist and social critic Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and his wife Njeeri Wa Ngugi were brutally attacked on August 11, 2003 in an apartment in Nairobi, Kenya.
		Ngugi was severely beaten and burned with cigarettes, and his wife, Njeeri, was raped in the ordeal.
		Sample Letter January 14, 2005 To Whom It May Concern: We are writing to appeal to the Kenyan government to react appropriately and with all deliberate speed to the brutal attack on Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Njeeri Wa Ngugi and the rape of Njeeri.
	www.fibreculture.org /myspinach/fibreculture/2005-February/004371.html (1092 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ngugi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o NGUGI WA THIONG'O [Ngugi wa Thiong'o] or James Ngugi, 1938-, Kenyan writer, acclaimed as East Africa's foremost novelist.
		Writing from the periphery: the case of Ngugi and Conrad.(Ngugi wa Thiongo and Joseph Conrad)(Critical Essay)
		Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o writes truth to power, speaking a language it can understand.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ngugi (295 words)

	Thiongo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His early works, Weep Not Child, The River Between, and A Grain of Wheat, depict the conflict of cultures and the role of Christianity, English education, and the increasingly oppressive treatment of the Kikuyu and other Africans, whose land had been taken by the colonists.
		Ngugi taught at Makerere University, University of Nairobi, and Northwestern University.
		Ngugi remains in self-imposed exile, and taught at Yale University for several years before joining the faculty of NYU in 1993.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/thiongo.htm (283 words)

	Writing from the periphery: the case of Ngugi and Conrad.(Ngugi wa Thiongo and Joseph Conrad)(Critical Essay) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The juxtaposition of Joseph Conrad (1854-1924) and Ngugi wa Thiongo (b.
		Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote his early novels, including A Grain of Wheat, in his second language, English, gaining world acclaim under the pen name of James Ngugi.
		When Ngugi was at Leeds University in the mid-1960s, by which time he had already published two novels and was starting his third, A Grain of Wheat, he changed his allegiance from Conrad to the Caribbean writer George Lamming, also an exile.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-11237_ITM (920 words)

	Alert on Ngugi and Njeeri Wa Thiongo Wa Ngugi
		As you may already know, world renowned Kenyan playwright, novelist and social critic Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and his wife Njeeri Wa Ngugi were brutally attacked on August 11, 2003 in an apartment in Nairobi, Kenya.
		We are writing to appeal to the Kenyan government to react appropriately and with all deliberate speed to the brutal attack on Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Njeeri Wa Ngugi and the rape of Njeeri.
		The world community continues to watch this case closely, first and foremost because we are shocked by the brutality of this attack and rape, but also because of the grave implications impunity for the perpetrators would have.
	acas.prairienet.org /alerts/alert_kenya.html (989 words)

	Ngugi page
		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:
		Language is thus inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Ngugi.html (411 words)

	Ngugi
		Ngugi grew up during the 1950s' Mau Mau struggle for independence from British colonial rule, a major theme of his early work.
		In these early novels one begins to see early signs of Ngugi's increasing bitterness about the waysin which the politicians are the true benefactors of the rewards of independence.
		Ngugi Wa Thiongo Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams : Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature, 1996) Gebundene Ausgabe (März 1998) Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0198183909
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfricanLit/Ngugi/Ngugi.htm (483 words)

	::fibreculture:: Support Ngugi and Njeeri Wa Thiongo Wa Ngugi
		> Ngugi was severely beaten and burned with cigarettes, and his wife, > Njeeri, was raped in the ordeal.
		The Ngugi and Njeeri Solidarity Committee > ngugisolidarity at gmail.com > > 3.
		If this attack on the occasion of his first return to > his home country, after 22 years in forced exile, is not condemned, and > all those responsible pursued for their crimes, a chilling blow to > intellectual liberty will have been dealt.
	www.fibreculture.org /myspinach/fibreculture/2005-February/004372.html (1207 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiongo 1938 books, find the lowest prices
		Conflicting Symbols in the Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
		Justice for the Oppressed-- : The Political Dimension in the Language Use of Ngugi Wa Thiongo
		Ngugi Wa Thiong O : A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 1957-1987
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	Free Essay The 1920s and 1930s
		A 5 page paper that discusses the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s and examines how the artists of this era were influenced by the National Associ...
		This is a 7 page paper discussing Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novel “The River Between” (1965).
		Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novel “The River Between” tells the story o...
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26157 (2820 words)

	East African Literature
		Barrel of a pen : resistance to repression in neo-colonial Kenya by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
		Decolonising the Mind by: Thiong'o Ngugi wa Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series) by: Ngugi Wa Thiongo
		A Grain of Wheat by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
	www.almudo.com /EastAfricalit.htm (542 words)

	Ngugi Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In this ambitious and densely worked novel, we begin to see early signs of Ngugi's increasing bitterness about the ways in which the politicians are the true benefactors of the rewards of independence.
		In this collection of essays and lectures Ngugi is concerned with "moving the center" in two sensesbetween nation and within nationsin order to free world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race, and gender.
		The narrative of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change is an effort to engage the past for the present, to stand witness to present times, and to express the need to restore a radical dialogue in Africa.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ngugi (780 words)

	Staging Liminality: Setting in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In The River Between (1965), Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o uses a distinction in setting between two mountain ridges as an organizing conceit that dramatizes the antagonism between two competing native constituencies and their seemingly irreconcilable belief structures.
		Because the setting (presumably the late 1940's or early 1950's) precedes emergence of substantive attempts at decolonization, Ngugi's novel portrays not so much the conflict between "colonizer" and "colonized" but the internal conflicts and plural ambitions of native people themselves.
		You could tell this, not by anything tangible but by the way they faced each other, like two rivals ready to come to blows in a life and death struggle for the leadership of this isolated region.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /ngugi/ngugi1.html (243 words)

	Ngugi wa Thiong'o (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Originally named James Thiong'o Ngugi, this politically active Kenyan writer changed his name in renouncement of Christianity because of the religion's colonial ties.
		He was born in 1938 and his education was a mix of Christianity and tradition.
		In 1982, Ngugi left his country to live in self-imposed exile in London.
	bdagger.colorado.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~bhongale/ngugi.html (349 words)

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