'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which...
'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at h...
Informed by traditional African storytelling, discover Ngugi wa Thiong'o's masterpiece. ...
‘Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time’ Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected...
During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alli...
Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent h...
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring new religion and 'magical...
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The B...
A collection of essays by Ngugi wa Thiong'o....
From origin myths to tales of modern prostitutes in search of dignity--even for only a moment--these powerful stories by two renowned African authors explore th...
byNgugi Thiong'O,Abdulrazak Gurnah
The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Whe...
byKevin O'Connor,Ngugi Thiong'O
Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, th...
byNgugi Thiong'O,Uzodinma Iweala
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize contender A legendary work of African literature, this ...
The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel
Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to att...