Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Santa Clara University Scholar Commons English College of Arts & Sciences Ngugi wa Thiong’o. John C. Hawley Santa Clara Univeristy, jhawley@ Follow this and additional works at: Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Hawley, J. C. (). Ngugi wa Thiong’o. In P. Parekh and S. Jagne (Eds.), Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (pp. ). Greenwood Press. Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Pushpa Naidu Parekh, ed., Siga Fatima Pagne, ed. Copyright © by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Pagne. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts & Sciences at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in English by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact rscroggin@ NGUGI WA THIONG'O ( ) BIOGRAPHY NgGgT wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of the third of his father's four wives; he had twenty-seven siblings. The family lived in Kamiriithu Village, twelve miles northeast of
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu, and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University), Kampala, Uganda; and the University of Leeds, Britain.
The Kenya of his birth and youth was a British settler colony (). As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau War of Independence (), the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works. Ngũgĩ burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in , as part of the celebration of Uganda’s Independence. “Ngũgĩ Speaks for the Continent,” headlined The Makererian, the student newspaper, in a review of the performance by Trevor Whittock, one of the professors. In a highly productive literary period, Ngũgĩ wrote additionally eight short stories, two one act plays, two novels, and a regular column f
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University), Kampala, Uganda; and the University of Leeds, Britain. He is recipient of seven Honorary Doctorates viz D Litt (Albright); PhD (Roskilde); D Litt (Leeds); D Litt &Ph D (Walter Sisulu University); PhD (Carlstate); D Litt (Dillard) and D Litt (Auckland University). He is also Honorary Member of American Academy of Letters. A many-sided intellectual, he is novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist.
The Kenya of his birth and youth was a British settler colony (). As an adolescent, he lived through the Mau Mau War of Independence (), the central historical episode in the making of modern Kenya and a major theme in his early works.
Ngugi burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Kampala
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (AKA James T. Ngugi) ( )
African novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan author, educator and playwright. With the publication of his first novel, he became a critically-acclaimed author at the age of His work is also published under the pseudonym James T. Ngugi.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born on January 5th, in Kamiriithu village in Kenya to Tiong’o wa Nduucu and Wanjikow wa Ngugi. He attended the mission-run Kamandura School in Limuru and the Maanguuu Karing’a School, which was taught in Gikuyu, the native language of that Bantu people of Kenya. In the school was taken over by the British government and teaching began in English. While attending Maanguuu Karing’a, Thiong’o read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, igniting his desire to write.
With a proficiency in English, Thiong&#;o won a place at Alliance High School in Kikuyu. Here he began to write for the school magazine, writing mainly political pieces, and in September his first work, “I Try Witchcraft,” was published in the magazine. Thiong&#;o graduated from high school in , and the following year he held a one-year teaching post at Kahuguini Primary School. After teaching he entered Makere Uni
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