Ngugi wa Thiongo's autobiography

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Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o has launched the first series of his 4 volume Autobiography, 'Dreams in a Time of War'. In his book, Ngugi talks about how it felt to grow up in Kenya under the British rule.

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[uyandha]

Congrats, Prof.!! I enjoy reading your intellectually stimulating books.

[supermashuhuri]

This guy is just the "bomb". Literary! He is so much of a culturalist that he feels he can't live on our pathetic Africa (culture home), wears no dreadlocks and traditional kikuyu clothing as he insists and when here, lives in posh hotels estates and not at "under a Mugumo tree in Mukuru wa nyagathanga". I would advise him to cultural up! Nkt! Snuff sniffing Kikuyus (Mungiki) should not listen to this false prophet as his practices r far 4rm his percieved thoughts!

[mseewaotu]

@princecoolruler i respect his potential to write...anyone can write and many have done so.

but what is his contribution to kenya? just coming to launch book? he has no legacy in kenya

[siasabora]

@thepolarden: it is probably full of drawings of Uhuru Highway made of stones n marbles! This is the problem when strange n fake powers get into your head!

[thepolarden1]

@mseewaotu You probably need to educate yourself on this matter more.  He is NOT, and I repeat, he is NOT an economic migrant - he left because of a DICTATOR called Moi. After that, he got important positions that have helped him publish - if he was in Kenya, it would have been difficult to publish. Ask the profs who remained. Ask them. Please do.

[thepolarden1]

@siasabora I wanna read that Mutua book, LOL!!! I never heard of it, where can I buy it?

[princecoolruler]

@mseewaotu It's sad that you choose to villify one of the best writers in the world and an African from Kenya in particular for no reason. Beware of working for the divide and conquer agents.Would you rather he have launched a written account of part of our history, in the west? Either it's just hate or plain idiocy.Big up Thiong'o we love you. Keep our culture alive, our great great grandchildren will know.

[wanzueni]

Im seeing fellow comrades, Phillip Ochieng, Lumumba....i miss you quys.Those of us who knew Ngugi and the times, it was good for him to leave thecountry, the political regimes were deadly.Those who remained never lived to tell the story like him or got wasted like Pro. Mbithi.The parrots like Saitoti, Karega Mutahi ar e all a shame to our great campus

[mseewaotu]

Ngugi has failed Kenya. He has no place in Kenya's history, except in the literary circles....Koigi came back and did his share in liberation struggles of Kenya. Ngugi, Ngugi, ask our generation, no one knows him, and that is his legacy, the one who fled Kenya

[karuitha]

@MildredMbogo please you cannot put Mutua to this legend. Mutua, the man who saw it wise to replace flowers n trees in Nairobi city centre with stones, well thats untill a riot bloke out and those stones became misilles. Mutua is a capitalist, he did not write that book for the love of writing, he wrote it for the love of money. Ngugi writes for the love of writing and thats why he is in the same league with akina achebe and soyinka.