Ngugi wa Thiong'o Moving the Center

World-renowned as a novelist, playwright, and critic whose oeuvre forms a bridge between earlier African writing and a younger generation of post-colonial writers, UC Irvine Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o has authored a number of acclaimed works of fiction. Series: "Humanitas" [5/2004] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8671]

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[jobitek]

Ngugi wa Thiongo continues to champion our need to speak ourselves into existence. Power and language to him and to us all.

[Africanmistress29]

Ngugi is terrific! I hope to meet him one day.

[YinYangTzu]

@ibrugger fair enough, thanks for clarification!

[ibrugger]

@YinYangTzu, my English teacher says the 'N' is not pronounced.

[unfortunatebeam]

I loved a Grain of Wheat. I want to read more by him; I'm deeply interested in African history and culture., and what are all the factors involved in why it was become the poorest and most war torn area on the Earth. Does anyone have any good reading suggetions or otherwise that explains the reasons for the current political/social/economic situation of the more troubled countries of Africa?

[agentfrenzykaka]

Great African thinker...What would the fate of Europe have been, if Africa conquered and colonized Europe? Perhaps, African Languages, and Gods would have been enforced into the European consciousness. Africans have to decolonize their minds. Slavery in the past was physical, in this century slavery is psychological ! I comment from Nigeria.

[mwendapolee]

@rabet03 either its soooo rooted in his speech that he cant do otherwise or his proud of it n wants 2 be identified with it!!!

[rabet03]

Knowing I will be bashed anyway, While other African literary giants like Soyinka and Achebe speak English without a prominent accent, how come Ngugi speaks Kikuyu-English? "Fakoti (faculty), Hoteo (hotel)" How come?

[YinYangTzu]

N - Googi Wah Thee-on-go

I believe

[kahunyokahwai]

Languages or tribes have no problem the problem is how we use them to create an aura of superiority against the other.

If u r a Kenyan, go to YouTube. Search for the -Swahili mass in mass I & II

There is no mother tongue that is more superior than the other (Ambassador R Ogego)

[kahunyokahwai]

Are you a Kenyan by any chance?

Each tribe is/was a language & each tribe was a state.

The problem is:

1. That the colonialists managed to draw very sharp edges btn the tribes.

2. They demonized and inferriorized the native languages so their language can be supreme.