Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, baptised James Ngugi, was born on 5 January 1938 in Kamiriithu, near Limuru, into a Kikuyu family hit hard by the repression of the revolt: his mother was tortured. Educated at Alliance High School and then at Makerere, he left the University of Leeds without finishing his thesis. A lecturer in Nairobi, he was imprisoned without trial from 1977 to 1978 after his theatre work at the Kamiriithu cultural centre, and decided in detention to stop writing his fiction in English. In exile from 1982, he taught in the United States, notably at the University of California, Irvine. He died on 28 May 2025.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelWeep Not, ChildNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1964Literature
• NovelThe River BetweenNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1965Literature