Books by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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review 1: Kenya's most prolific writer explores his childhood between the end of the 2nd world war and the period of the state of emergency in colonial Kenya. He lived not far from where my dad was born and so it was interesting hearing of familiar places in strange times, in the 50's. It ...
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review 1: Ngugi's second volume of his memoir. While "Dreams in a Time of War" carried us through primary school and Ngugi's Kikuyu rite of passage, this one carries us through his High School years at a top level boarding school and his passage to legal adulthood. With the Mau-Mau upris...