Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Biographic Data

ID4531132
NAMENgugi Wa Thiong'O
GIVEN NAMESNgugi Wa
FAMILY NAMEThiong'O
SIGNATUREO N W T
AFFILIATIONSa Comparative Literature & English , University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS71
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Nyambura and the Multi-Coloured Bird

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEWasafiri2022

  • Mazrui and Achebe: The artist and the political scientist

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEWasafiri2013

  • A Globalectical Imagination

    Ngugi Wa Thiong''O, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o et al.ARTICLEWorld Literature Today2013Cited by: 1

    As William Blake saw eternity in an hour, Ngg wa Thiong'o argues for an ethics of reading that assumes the interconnectedness of time and space in the area of human thought and action. This globalectical approach reads every center as a center of the world and each text as its mirror

  • Tongue and pen: A challenge to philosophers from Africa

    Ngugi Wa Thiong''O, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Cultural Studies2013Cited by: 4References: 2

    There's a tendency to assume that knowledge, education, jurisprudence, and especially philosophy, come from the pen. This is because knowledge, the world over, reaches us through books. The most do

  • Rũrĩmĩ na karamu: Ithoga harĩ athamaki a Abirika

    Ngugi Wa Thiong''O, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Cultural Studies2013Cited by: 1References: 2

    Andũ aingĩ meciragia atĩ ũmenyo, ũgĩ, cira na makĩria ũthamaki, ciumaga karamuinĩ. Gĩtũmi nĩ tondũ momenyo maingĩ matukũ maya tũrĩ matũkinyagĩra na njĩra ya mabuku. Ndini iria irĩ ngumĩi thĩinĩ wa

  • Language in Everything to Declare: Celebrating the Pilgrim's Twenty-Fifth Birthday

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEWasafiri2010Cited by: 1

    On 31 October 2009, the internationally renowned novelist, playwright and writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o delivered the keynote address at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, as the first event of

  • Buono Sera: How Many Eggs Have You Got Today

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEWasafiri2009

  • On David Cook

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2004

    David Cook first came to Makerere on a visiting basis about 1962 before returning to the same academy on a full-time basis as a lecturer, eventually climbing to the top as Professor of English Department. But the climb was a few years after I had left the academy where I graduated in English with honors in 1964.1 therefore studied under David Cook for a good two years. I remember him for his classes on Matthew Arnold, Culture andAnarchy mostly, a…

  • Hegel in African Literature: Achebe's Answer

    Open AccessNgugi Wa Thiong''O, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o et al.ARTICLEDiogenes2004Cited by: 1

    The colonial project has three interrelated facets. It is at once a practice; a body of knowledge; and a technology for mind change, or simply mental engineering. Decolonization is necessarily a negation of the three-in-one character of the colonial process, to produce a third possibility: independence, liberation and social justice. Colonialism as mind-engineering results from colonialism as practice and text but it also aids them. Mind-engineer…

  • License to Write: Encounters with Censorship

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2003

    Research Article| August 01 2003 License to Write: Encounters with Censorship NGUGI WA THIONG'O NGUGI WA THIONG'O Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 54–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation NGUGI WA THIONG'O; License to Write: Encounters with Censorship. Comparativ…

  • Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2000Cited by: 3

    Iwas lucky, in preparing for this lecture, come across one of Eric Ashby's books, African Universities and Western Tradition, and a cursory reading brought a sense of recognition. I noticed the irony in the way the book had crossed my life while also embodying a number of my con? cerns. The book was the Godkin lectures he gave at Harvard University in 1964. It was the year I graduated from Makerere College with a University of London honors degre…

  • Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and State in Africa

    Adeleke Adeeko, Ngugi Wa Thiong''O et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1999Cited by: 22

    Preface Introduction 1. Art War with the State: Writers and Guardians of a Postcolonial Society 2. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: The Conflict Between the Crafts of Art and the State 3. Enacting Power: The Politics of the Performance State 4. Voicing Silence: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order 5. Renaissance or Orature: Freeing Creativity from the Literary Colonisation of Orality Conclusion

  • Decolonising the Mind

    Open AccessNgugi Wa Thiong''O, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O et al.ARTICLEDiogenes1998Cited by: 17

    The question is this: we as African writers have always complained about the neo-colonial economic and political relationship to Euro-America. Right. But by our continuing to write in foreign languages, paying homage to them, are we not on the cultural level continuing that neo-colonial slavish and cringing spirit? What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do wi…

  • Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society

    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 .

  • Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLETDR/The Drama Review1997

    realm of values, this was expressed through performance. The community learned and passed its moral codes and aesthetic judgments through narratives, dances, theatre, rituals, music, games, and sports. With the emergence of the state, the artist and the state become not only rivals in articulating the laws, moral or formal, that regulate life in society, but also rivals in determining the manner and circumstances of their delivery. This is best e…

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: An African Vision of Linguistic and Cultural Pluralism

    Sonia Macpherson, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLETESOL Quarterly1997Cited by: 2

    The TESOL Quarterly welcomes evaluative reviews of publications relevant to TESOL professionals. In addition to textbooks and reference materials, these include computer and video software, testing instruments, and other forms of nonprint materials. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.: Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms.: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood.: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  • Kamau Brathwaite: The Voice of African Presence

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEWorld Literature Today1994Cited by: 1

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kamau Brathwaite: The Voice of African Presence, World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 4, Kamau Brathwaite: 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Autumn, 1994), pp. 677-682

  • Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures

    Open AccessNgũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…1991Cited by: 3

  • Short story: Matigari as myth and history: An interview

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEThird World Quarterly1989Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Decolonising the Mind

    D A Maughan Brown, Duncan Brown et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1987Cited by: 1

  • Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

    H S Bhola, Ngugi Wa Thiong''O et al.REVIEWAfrican Studies Review1987Cited by: 9

  • The Writer in a Neocolonial State

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEThe Black Scholar1986Cited by: 3

    (1986). The Writer in a Neocolonial State. The Black Scholar: Vol. 17, African Literature, pp. 2-10

  • The commitment of the intellectual

    Open AccessNgũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1985Cited by: 1

    (1985). The commitment of the intellectual. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 12, No. 32, pp. 18-24

  • Education for a National Culture

    Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OARTICLEUfahamu A Journal of African…1983

    No abstract

  • Writers in Politics

    Robert Cancel, Ngugi Wa Thiong''O et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1983