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Man Booker International Prize Finalist • By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an…
evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.&“A testament to the resilience of youth and the strength of hope."—The Boston GlobeBorn in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong&’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young Ngũgĩ displayed what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning, yet it was unimaginable that he would grow up to become a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and critic.In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ deftly etches a bygone era, bearing witness to the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war. Speaking to the human right to dream even in the worst of times, this rich memoir of an African childhood abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
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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 book that describes Mphahlele s experience growing up in segregated South Africa Vivid graceful and unapologetic it details a daily life of severe poverty and brutal police surveillance under the subjugation of an apartheid regime Banned in South Africa after its original 1959 publication for its protest against apartheid Down Second Avenue is a foundational work of literature that continues to inspire activists today
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Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer…
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.James Ngugi, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also haunted by the experience of his childhood in a polygamous family and the brave break his mother made from his father's home. Accompanied by these ghosts, Ngugi begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present.What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is both the birth of one of the most important living writers--lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)--and the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history.