...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o © 2014 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2014 Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale Rĩrĩa meetaga Mandela na ndundu yake imaramari Meetaga Verwoerd na Vorster na Botha arũĩri wĩyathi Rĩrĩa mendagĩria abathendi matharaita ma kũratha andũ airũ Kiumba yaheyaga arũĩri wĩyathi...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2 Parts of this article have been published in the Standard (Kenya); and the Sunday Independent (South Africa). © 2014 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2014 Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus2 I first met Mandela in 1991 in Johannesburg, at the offices...

..., continental Africa; Himalayan studies initiatives, Kathmandu-­Kolkata-­Kunming; thinking glo- bality together, French India and Senegambia. Daughter of a feminist mother, she is deeply involved in feminism across the spectrum. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is currently distinguished professor of English...

..., Oh Jung-hee, Sung Suk-je, Paik Nakchung, and Kim Seong-kon from Korea, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Le Clézio, Margaret Drabble, Gary Snyder, Oe Kenzaburo, Jean Baudrillard, Orhan Pamuk, Bei Dao, and others from boundary 2 34:1 (2007)  DOI 10.1215/01903659-2006-033  © 2007 by Duke University Press...

...), Agostinho Neto (Angola), Sembène Ousmane (Senegal), Taha Hussein (Egypt), Kateb Yacine (Algeria), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Yusuf al-Sibai (Egypt), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Pakistan), Tawfiq al-Hakim (Egypt), and Nguyên Ngoc (Vietnam) (227 – 78). After...

.... Our fellow participant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has written much about this dilemma: for him, the choice of language was and perhaps remains a painful political choice, and he has made considerable sacrifices for it. Nevertheless, most of us believe that the way forward is through con...

.... While much contemporary writing uses multilin- gualism to discuss the imbalance and injustice of colonial situations, multi- lingual writing still does not follow the model of Ngu˜g˜ı wa Thiong’o, who, in 1978, said farewell to the cultural bomb of English and began to write only in Kikuyu.14...

... immediately, you see. And then there is also another person, like Ngũgĩ [wa Thiong’o], about whom I can speak because he is also of the older genera- tion—he is older than I am. Ngũgĩ also had difficulties of a different kind. For a long time, he seemed quite unhappy living outside his country [Kenya...

.... See Obiajunwa Wali’s “The Dead End of African Literature?” Transition 10 (September 1963): 14; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1986); and Research in African Literatures 23...

... 116 , no. 1 : 111 – 28 . Mufti Aamir . 2007 . Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o . 1978 . “ The Links That Bind Us .” Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings ( Tashkent...

... colonized writers do not; the bifurcations in the literary world-­system crystallize in front of them: Is one to become a national writer or an international one? That choice isn’t fully available on the periphery, at least in the sense that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was doing something quite drastic...

... a Lamming would have been influencing a Ngūgī [wa Thiong'o], yourself, and others, and others would be influencing Lamming or whoever, but that [at] this stage, at this point, at this moment, there are no influences, there [are] no crosscurrents of influences—is that really so? NF : Exactly...

... degree. One was on ideology, in political science. And the second one was on Ng ūgī wa Thiong'o, in African literature. And so that I am deeply preoccupied with the postcolonial, but I'm deeply preoccupied with the postcolonial and what it does to human beings. In other words, for me the question...