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Cry Sorrow - English
URL: http://www.nathanielturner.com/crysorrow.htm

Biographical Information on African Writers

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - English
URL: http://www.glpinc.org/Classroom%20Activities/Kenya%20Articles/Ngugi%20Wa%20Thion

Most African literature is oral. It includes stories, riddles, proverbs and sayings. In Decolonizing the Mind, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the importance of oral literature to his childhood. He says "I can vividly recall those evenings of storytelling around the fire side. It was mostly the grown ups telling the children but everybody was interested and involved. We children would retell the stories the following day to other children who worked in the fields."

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East African Literature - English
URL: http://www.almudo.com/EastAfricalit.htm

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Ngugi wa Thiongo Definition Meaning Information Explanation - English
URL: http://www.free-definition.com/Ngugi-wa-Thiongo.html

Ngugi wa Thiongo definition, meaning and explanation and more about Ngugi wa Thiongo

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Staging Liminality: Setting in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between - English
URL: http://www.postcolonialweb.org/ngugi/ngugi1.html

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Paul Dorn: Ngugi wa Thiongo's "Petals of Blood" - English
URL: http://www.runmuki.com/paul/writing/ngugi.html

A marxist analysis of the Kenyan (Gikuyu) novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novel Petals of Blood

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Ngugi page - English
URL: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Ngugi.html

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. In his 1986 Decolonising the Mind, his "farewell to English," Ngugi describes language as a way people have not only of describing the world, but of understanding themselves. For him, English in Africa is a "cultural bomb" that continues a process of erasing memories of pre-colonial cultures and history and as a way of installing the dominance of new, more insidious forms of colonialism. Writing in Gikuyu, then, is Ngugi's way not only of harkening back to Gikuyu traditions, but also of acknowledging and communicating their present.

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Thiongo - English
URL: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/thiongo.htm

The Africana Collection at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries provides assistance to scholars at U.F. and elsewhere seeking library materials in support of research and teaching about Africa.

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ngugiw.htm

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Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright, whose works function as an important link between the pioneers of African writing and the younger generation of postcolonial writers. After imprisonment in 1978, Ngugi abandoned using English as the primary language of his work in favor of Gikuyu, his native tongue. The transition from colonialism to postcoloniality and the crisis of modernity has been a central issues in a great deal of Ngugi's writings.

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