Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo

Biographic Data

ID4495829
NAMENgũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo
GIVEN NAMESNgũgĩ Wa
FAMILY NAMEThiongʼo
SIGNATURETHIONGʼO N W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS330
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen

    Noenoe K Silva, Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKPower of the Steel-Tipped Pen2020

    In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers-Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kānepu'u (1824-ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku'ōhai Poepoe (1852-1913)-to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemol…

  • Descolonitzar la ment

    Blanca Busquets, Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKDescolonitzar la ment2017Cited by: 288

  • Secure the Base

    Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKSecure the Base2016

  • Something Torn and New

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKSomething torn and new2009Cited by: 12

    Novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. Here, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible forc…

  • Black linguistics

    Arnetha Ball, Arthur K Spears et al.BOOKBlack linguistics2003

    "Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for…

  • Devil on the Cross

    Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKDevil on the Cross2000Cited by: 30

  • Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams

    Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKPenpoints, gunpoints, and dreams1998

    This book explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This study, in turn, raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state of art and the art of the state, particularly in their struggle for the control of performance space in territorial, temporal, social, and eve…

  • Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams

    Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoBOOKPenpoints, gunpoints, and dreams1998

  • Concluding Note

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoCHAPTERPenpoints, gunpoints, and dreams1998

    This concluding chapter describes the artist's response to the power of the state and to the challenges of interpretation. Writers have no real choices other than to align themselves with the people and articulate their deepest yearnings and struggles for real change. Where the state silences, art should give voice to silence. Where, for instance, there is no democracy for the rest of the population, there cannot be democracy for the writer. Henc…

  • Writers in Politics

    Open AccessNgũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo et al.BOOKWriters in Politics1997

    This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre .

  • I Will Marry When I Want

    Open AccessNgũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo et al.BOOKI will marry when I want1982

    This play, which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru, proved so powerful, especially in the use of song, that it was banned and probably contributed to Ngugi's detention without trial