Birth of a dream weaver
Subtitle: a writer's awakening
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781620972403
Subjects: Kenyan Authors; Biography
Description: "Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writers creative output. In this wonderful memoir, internationally renowned Kenyan writer and author of the now-classic Wizard and the Crow, Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda--threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The wound in the heart; title: A wounded land; title: Reds and blacks; title: Benzes, sneakers, frisbees, and flags; title: Penpoints and fig trees; title: Writing for the money of it; title: Black dolls and black masks; title: Transition and that letter from Paris; title: Boxers and black hermits; title: Pages, stages, spaces; title: Coal, rubber, silver, gold, and new flags; title: Working for the nation; title: Notes and notebooks; title: A hell of a paradise.