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För första gången på svenska: den berömde författaren Ngugi wa Thiong os uppmärksammade och omtalade essäer. I mer än sextio år har Ngugi wa Thiong o skildrat frågorna, utmaningarna, historierna och framtiden för människor på den afrikanska kontin...

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'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya...Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its indepe...

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A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of By the Sea, in Penguin Modern Classics. It is 1963...

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A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization. 'The language of literature', Ngugi writes, 'cannot be discussed meaningfully outside the con...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity. ...

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A legendary work of African literature, Devil on the Cross is one of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's enduring fame - and at the heart of his perennial contention for the Nobel Prize. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and ...

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Tystlåtne Mugo är i allas ögon en frihetshjälte. En gång ska han ha lett en hungerstrejk i ett brittiskt koncentrationsläger under självständighetskampen. Varför grips han då av sådan vånda när han tillfrågas om att hålla tal vid firandet av Kenya...

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake w...

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The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the ...

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»En av de verkligt stora skildrarna av människan och kolonialismens gift. Återutgivningarna är en välsignelse.« STEFAN INGVARSSON, EXPRESSEN »Ngugi wa Thiong o har med textens hjälp givit glödande liv åt en tid och en plats så att man ett halvt se...

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»Ngugi wa Thiong'o bär upp alla de dilemman en samtida afrikansk författare konfronterar i form av - ibland oförsonliga - politiska och språkliga strömningar.« | JOHN UPDIKE, THE NEW YORKER »En av Afrikas största författare.« | SAN FRANCISCO CHRON...

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A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose wor...

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Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with a...

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»Ngugi wa Thiong'o har med textens hjälp givit glödande liv åt en tid och en plats så att man ett halvt sekel senare, i en annan del av världen, får vara med.« DN »En av de verkligt stora skildrarna av människan och kolonialismens gift. Återutgivn...

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»Ngugi wa Thiong'o bär upp alla de dilemman en samtida afrikansk författare konfronterar i form av - ibland oförsonliga - politiska och språkliga strömningar.« | JOHN UPDIKE, THE NEW YORKER »En av Afrikas största författare.« | SAN FRANCISCO CHRON...

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» Om icke vetekornet borde vara obligatorisk läsning för alla som ser det brittiska kolonialväldet i det romantiska ljus som Karen Blixen bidragit till att befästa.« | STEFAN INGVARSSON, EXPRESSEN »Ngugi wa Thiong'o har med textens hjälp givit glö...

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During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first vi...

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The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, "Petals of Blood" is on the surface a su...

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Barack Obama, via Facebook: "A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships." The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's best-known novel Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion...

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The Kenyan playwright, novelist, and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938- ) is best-known for the novels A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking...

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Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of indi...

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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his mos...

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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his mos...

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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his mos...

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Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of ind...

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Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of ind...

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Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.

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Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family m...

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This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a compe...

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A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose wor...

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