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Birth of a Dream Weaver Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Birth of a Dream Weaver Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Birth of a Dream Weaver Zusammenfassung

Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening Ngugi wa Thiong'o

'Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian

When Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s. Campus is a haven of opportunity for the brightest African students, a meeting place for thinkers and writers from all over the world, and its alumni are filling Africa's emerging political and cultural positions.

Despite the challenges he faces as a young black man in a British colony, it is here that Ngugi begins to find his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa enter the final stages of their independence struggles.

Birth of a Dream Weaver Bewertungen

I particularly loved [Birth of A Dream Weaver]... Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian, Book of the Year *
The book tracks the blossoming of a politically conscious young writer's talent in the nurturing environment that was Makerere in its prime. Egged on by fellow students, encouraged by the progressive dean Hugh Dinwiddy and offered tips by a visiting Chinua Achebe, Ngugi finds his creative voice just as a continent is finding its freedom. The convictions he forms will last a lifetime: the quest for African dignity and self-realization, a rejection of Western hegemony, a passionate call for Africans to tell their own story in their own indigenous languages. -- Michela Wrong * New York Times *
Ngugi has written an autobiographical masterpiece... a riveting read in African history and literature * Library Journal, STARRED review *
Ngugi wa Thiong'o recalls his upbringing in colonial Kenya... Mr Ngugi's unstated goal throughout this book is reclamation...of much of the colonial endeavour in east Africa. * Economist *
A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Guardian *

Über Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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GOR008871904
9781784701307
1784701300
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Vintage Publishing
2017-11-02
256
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