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Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo. by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- New Press, [2016] Call #: 921 N576b Subjects Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-   Novelists, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.   Novelists, Black -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, Black -- 20th century -- Biography ISBN:  9781620972403 (hc.) Description:  238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Prologue -- The wound in the heart -- A wounded land -- Reds and blacks -- Benzes, sneakers, frisbees, and flags -- Penpoints and fig trees -- Writing for the money of it -- Black dolls and black masks -- Transition and that letter from Paris -- Boxers and black hermits -- Pages, stages, spaces -- Coal, rubber, silver, gold, and new flags -- Working for the nation -- Notes and notebooks -- A hell of a paradise. Summary:  Charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda - threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles. James Ngugi, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also haunted by the experience of his childhood in a polygamous family and the brave break his mother made from his father's home. Accompanied by these ghosts, Ngugi begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present. What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is both the birth of one of the most important living writers - lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times) - and the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan writer. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. His first novels were Weep Not, Child (1964) and The River Between (1965). The uncensored political message of his 1977 play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) provoked the then Kenyan Vice-President Daniel arap Moi to order his arrest. While detained in the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Ngũgĩ wrote the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language (a language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya), Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ (Devil on the Cross), on prison-issued toilet paper. His later works include Detained, his prison diary (1981) and two autobiographical works: Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir (2010) and In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2012). Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 921 N576b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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