THIONG'O

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri. The reason why Ngugi is the greatest writer to have come from East and Central Africa is because, like Peter Abrahams in South Africa and Chinua Achebe in West Africa, he writes about big subjects. The three writers are for literature what Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela are for politics. Check out the bibliography after the jump

BIBLIOGRAPHY

▪ The Black Hermit, 1963 (play)

▪ Weep Not, Child, 1964, Heinemann 1987, McMillan 2005, 

▪ The River Between, Heinemann 1965, Heinemann 1989, 

▪ A Grain of Wheat, 1967 (1992) 

▪ This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Reels," and "The Wound in the Heart"), c. 1970

▪ Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, Heinemann 1972, 

▪ A Meeting in the Dark (1974)

▪ Secret Lives, and Other Stories, 1976, Heinemann 1992 

▪ The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (play), 1976, African Publishing Group, (with Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)

▪ Ngaahika ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want), 1977 (play; with Ngugi wa Mirii), Heinemann Educational Books (1980)

▪ Petals of Blood, (1977) Penguin 2002, 

▪ Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross), 1980

▪ Writers in Politics: Essays, 1981

▪ Education for a National Culture, 1981

▪ Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, 1981

▪ Devil on the Cross (English translation of Caitaani mutharaba-Ini), Heinemann, 1982, 

▪ Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, 1983

▪ Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986

▪ Mother, Sing For Me, 1986

▪ Writing against Neo-Colonialism, 1986

▪ Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu), 1986 (children's book)

▪ Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986

▪ Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i), 1988 (children's book)

▪ Matigari, (translated into English by Wangui wa Goro), Heinemann 1989, Africa World Press 1994,

▪ Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene), (children's book), 1990, Africa World Press, 

▪ Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Heinemann, 1993,

▪ Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa, (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998.

▪ Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow), 2004, East African Educational Publishers,

▪ Wizard of the Crow, 2006, Secker,

▪ Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, Basic Civitas Books, 2009,

▪ Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir, Harvill Secker, 2010,