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 what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As h[...]

After a terrible murder in the village of Ilmorog, four suspects are placed in detention: Munira the headmaster; Abdullah the storekeeper; Karega the assistant teacher and 'barmaid' Wanja. The lives of these four characters are inextricably linked with the lives of the three murder victims, the fort[...]

The great 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 times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war[...]

With black-and-white illustrations throughout
World-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ng ug y wa Thiong'o gives us the second volume of his memoirs in the wake of his critically acclaimed "Dreams in a Time of War."
"In the House of the Interpreter" richly and po[...]

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 competition organized by the devil.[...]

Ngugi wa Thiong'o har länge räknats som en av Afrikas stora författare. Hans barndomsskildring är en resa i Afrikas 1900-tal men samtidigt en varm och personlig betraktelse över att växa upp i kolonialismens och krigets skugga.

Den unge Ngugi wa Thiong'o vet inte vilket barn i ordni[...]

Tre afrikanska industripampar har mördatsoch fyra personer häktas som misstänkta: rektorn för den lokala skolan, Munira, barflickan Wanja, den tidigare gerilla-kämpen Abdulla samt fackföreningsmannen Karega. De fyra huvudpersonernas inbördes relationer bildar kärnan i Ngugiwa Thiong os klass[...]

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize contender
A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. "The River Between" ex[...]

Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. "Down Second Avenue" is a landmark bo[...]

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 most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda ( I Will Mar[...]