Ngugi Wa Thiong''O

Biographic Data

ID75769
NAMENgugi Wa Thiong''O
GIVEN NAMESNgugi Wa
FAMILY NAMEThiong''O
SIGNATUREO N W T
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX4

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Writers in Politics

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

  • Marxism and Literature in Kenya

    Max Dorsinville, Ngugi Wa Thiong''O et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1983