num_pages: 192
description: Novelist, playwright, and literary theorist, Ngugi is one of the most important contemporary writers in Anglophone Africa. His prize-winning "Weep Not, Child" was the first major novel in English by an East African.
language: English
title: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
titlecomplete: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (World Authors Series)
publisher: Twayne Publishers