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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 the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity.Gikuyu and Mumbi settled on the peaceful and bounteous foot of Mount Kenya after fleeing war and hunger. When ninety-nine suitors arrive on their land, seeking to marry their famously beautiful daughters...

This is the original Gikuyu version of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's satirical novel Murogi wa Kagogo, published in English as Wizard of the Crow . The novel gives a surgical examination of the cult of dictatorship in Africa. The story is set in the imaginary Free Republic of Aburiria, and weaved around the Ruler and his coterie of court-poets, all of them the epitome of the dictum that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Then there ...

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A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of our time'Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review, he has been a finalist for the International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his books have sold tens of t...

Opportunity: This is the first, original, book length work of fiction since Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow was published in 2006. Sales history: Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow has sold over 20, 000 copies in all editions, including 8, 000 in hard cover. Social media presence: Ngugi has 152, 565 followers on Facebook. Public intellectual: Ngugi is a go­to person for human rights and Africa as well as the art of writing. He is extre...

From one of the world's greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda as a student In this acclaimed memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda-crucial years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations we...

Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence.

Master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o blends myth and folklore with insight into the human psyche and the patterns of politics in this fable of how humans came to walk upright, set to appeal to both adults and children. Sunandini Banerjee illustrates.

Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.

This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre.

A collection of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's early and later political short stories. Published for the first time in "Vintage Classics".

A damning satire of politics and corruption in Kenya that became the catalyst of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's imprisonment by the Kenyan government, now published in "Vintage Classics" for the first time.

Reissued for the first time to be part of the "Vintage Classics" series. With richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, this is widely considered Ngugi wa Thiong'o's masterpiece.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners, but he refuses to give in to the humiliation.

Ngũgĩ's Wizard of Crows has sold over 20, 000 copies in all editions, including 8K in hard cover This memoir has never been published in the United States. (It's a highly revised version of his memoir Detained, that was published in London in the early 1980s.) Ngũgĩ's books have received glowing blurbs and reviews from The Guardian, the New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times...

A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization.

Ngugi wa Thiong¿o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow, the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver, and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, amo...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning.As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Thr...