Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5.1. 1938.-) je kenijski pisac, koji je svojevremeno pisao na engleskom a danas piše na Gĩkũyũ jeziku. Opus mu se sastoji od romana, drama, novela, eseja, akademskih studija, kritika i dječjih knjiga. On je osnivač i urednik časopisa nma Gikuyu jezikuMutiiri. Ngugi je otišao u egzil nakon što je pušten iz kenijskog zatvora 1977. godine; otada živi u SAD, a godinama je predavao na Yaleu, kao i na njujorškom univerzitetu te Univerzitetu Kalifornije u Irvineu.

Biografija 
Ngugi je rođen u Kamiriithuu, u blizini grada Kiambu, u porodici koja je pripadala plemenu Kikuyu. Kršten je kao James Ngugi, a nakon odlaska u misionarsku školu postao je gorljivi krščanin. Rodbina mu je, pak, bila pogođena pobunom Mau Mau; tada mu je ubijen polubrat, a majka mučena.

Za vrijeme studija u Leedsu napisao je 1964. godine svoj prvi roman Weep Not, Child koji se smatra prvim romanom istočnoafričke književnosti. Taj i sljedeći roman, The River Between, napisao je na engleskom jeziku.

Godine 1967. prigrlio je marksističke ideje Frantza Fanona, a zajedno s njima i antikolonijalizam. Zbog toga se odrekao kršćanstva, engleskog imena, a konačno i engleskog jezika kao simbola kolonijalnog ugnjetavanja. Umjesto engleskog, počeo je pisati na Gikuyu i suahili jeziku.

Godine 1977. je zatvoren zbog kritike tadašnjeg potpredsjednika Daniela Arapa Moija, a pet godina kasnije pušten. Tada je otišao u SAD.

Godine 2004. se vratio u Keniju, ali su ga u hotelskoj sobi napali razbojnici te mu silovali ženu.

Bibliografija 
 The Black Hermit, 1963 (drama)
 Weep Not, Child, 1964, Heinemann 1987, McMillan 2005, 
 The River Between, Heinemann 1965, Heinemann 1989, 
 A Grain of Wheat, 1967 (1992) 
 This Time Tomorrow (tri drame, uključujući "The Reels" i "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, 1976, , African Publishing Group,  (koatuor Micere Githae Mugo)
 Ngaahika ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want), 1977 (drama; koautor 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,  Publisher's site(US) 978-0-43508-985-6
 Education for a National Culture, 1981
 Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, 1981
 Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, 1983
 Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986,  Publisher's site
 Mother, Sing For Me, 1986
 Writing against Neo-Colonialism, 1986
 Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu), 1986 (dječja knjiga)
 Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986
 Devil on the Cross (engleski prijevod naslova Caitaani mutharaba-Ini), Heinemann, 1987, 
 Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i), 1988 (dječja knjiga)
 Matigari, (engleski prijevod Wangui wa Goro), Heinemann 1989, Africa World Press 1994, 
 Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene), (dječja knjiga), 1990, Africa World Press, 
 Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Heinemann, 1993, ,  Publisher's site
 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 was Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow), 2004, East African Educational Publishers, 
 Wizard of the Crow, 2006, Secker,

Eksterni linkovi 
 Official homepage 
 Interview of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o by Leonard Lopate on WNYC, New York public radio, following publication of "WIzard of the Crow"
 Launch of "Wizard of the Crow" in London 10th August 2006
 An Interview With Ngugi wa Thiong'o, May 2004
 Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o following publication of "WIzard of the Crow", Socialist Worker, 4 November 2006 
 Profile: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Books and Writers 
 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Emory University
 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Overview 
 biography and booklist 
 Biography of Ngugi from University of Florida Library 
 Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of Blood
 International Center for Writing and Translation
 About "A Meeting in the Dark"  Interpretations of and more background information on the short story.
 Famous People from Kenya: Ngugi wa Thiongo
 James Currey Publishers. (Publishers of 'Decolonising the Mind', 'Writers in Politics' and 'Moving the Centre').

Thiongo, Ngugi wa
Thiongo, Ngugi wa