Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

**Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o** (5. 1. 1938. – 28. 5. 2025.), 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 jeziku*[[Mutiiri]].* 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, 

## Vanjske veze
* 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').