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Realistic Experience of a prisoner of concience
This book was a good expose on the experiences of one of the many Kenyan prisoners of concience. Ngugi manages to paint a picture of the beginings and subsequent life experiences of a detainee in very good detail. I recommend this book to every one and especially Kenyans who are interested in having a first hand detail of the life of a detainee.

Prebendal Forces and the Stars of Hope
Ngugi Wa Thiongo is a foremost African author. He has written widely onliterary themes and their implication for daily living. He is one of thefew authors who have published remarkably in an African language. The onlyremarkable author from that part of the world is the young, vibrant but nowdeceased Okot P'Bitek. Ngugi's Detained relishes his ugly and unwarrantedprison experiences under the rein of Jomo Kenyatta- an African nationalistwho started well burt due to reactionary influences became derailed andunfocused in his vision for the young state. The literary vocation ofNgugi- especially his plays and the critical message that relates toexistential situation of poverty and the empowerment of the people was seenas anti-establsihment. He was as a consequence picked up, as is normallythe case- an inherited genetic legacy from the colonial era- and dumpedinto prison. The supposition that the state was almost the exclusivereserve of the sole African-King-leader/head of state provided spurious butnot juridical legitimacy to such practices. The book is a reflection of anauthor who struggled but managed to preoccupy himself while in prison. Theauthor is not alone, in fact he mentioned the experiences of Wole Soyinkaas recorded in "The Man Died." This book draws on the historicalprocesses of resistance, and popular empowerment to denounce bourgeoiselitist African leaders who had deemed the dreams and aspiration ofindependence- but forget that Ngugi himself in his book; "Weep notChild" documents the struggles of the Mau Mau resistant movementagainst colonial rule. Now, in the aftermath of the struggle, one oppressoris simply replaced for another except for skin pigmentation that merelymakes the difference. Indigenous colonialism. This book, is an old but yetthe insights and vision raised therein remains critically relevant to thestruggles of individuals and groups as in their attempt to shrug offoppression, they are crushed by repression into silence in the womb of thebestial prison machinery. These gory institutions is truly meant to crushand recrush its subjects into dehumanized existence. Only very few arelucky to get out to tell their tales- like Ngugi. Others are not so luckywe only get to hear from them- through smuggled materials from prison.Ngugi offers us insights as to the dynamics of prisons as a mechanism ofdismantling- if not eliminating- political opponents into resignation ordeath. But yet they are many who resists the temptation and that is howbelligerent political prisoners can be. Even in freedom Ngugi tells thetale of his dispossession-as the possibility of work- a sure means tosurvival- was denied him. Freedom comes with strings- accept it or rejectit- or even fight against it- and that is why being free outside the worldof the prison is such a splendid thing. Ngugi equally makes a connectionbetween the multinational or capitalist interests who are intent onsubmerging the hard-fought gains of independence, with economic subjugationwith the attempt to dissipate the so-called radical element that stand intheir way and their assumed ability to make and reproduce money and profit.What a shame!!! This book is a very revealing and insightful book. Everyreader is bound to reap something good and exciting from Ngugi'sexperience, and the situation of bondage to which the thirdworld-especially African nations- are held. Nevertheless, people like Ngugiand his future acolytes hold up a vision of hope for the continent and herpeople. Up goes the torch and there to illumine the darkness. Read on andsavour its sweetness!!! ... Read more

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Loved Head's contributions!
Though all four stories are good, I particularly enjoyed Bessie Head's contributions to this book. It was required reading for an African Literature class, and I enjoyed them so much I decided to keep the book. Highly recommend to anyone interested in African Lit, since it gives various perspectives and an introduction to two authors.

African Stories.
I love the book. Prof.Ngugi wa Thiong'o is from my tribe and i have followed all his writings since i was young. I like his well Afican rich culture essays, that do champion our herritage. ... Read more

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Ngugi wa Thiong?o, Nuruddin Farah, and Ayi Kwei Armah advance in their writings a Marxist eschatology based on the teleological eschatology of the Abrahamic vision. Their materialist eschatology provides a lens that can be used to better understand the political vision of liberation novelists as it is meant to demythologize social realities in order to bring about true reciprocity in human relationships. Abrahamic eschatologies opened traditional African consciousness to the concept of a future tense in the articulation of a hoped-for age to come, and this dovetailed with the African experience of postcolonial change as a religious phenomenon. Ngugi wa Thiong?o uses the Christian mass and Gospel narrative to expose neocolonialism. Nuruddin Farah merges Islam with the medieval Catholic vision of Dante?s Comedy to interpret hell as a disintegration of social communion and paradise as its reintegration. Ayi Kwei Armah maps out a ?way of reciprocity? as a natural alternative to the supernatural hoped-for age to come. ... Read more

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Title: Ngugi wa Thiong'o.(Review)
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Title: Ngugi wa Thiong'o. (Kenya).
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Title: "Flowers in all their colours": natios and communities in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood.(Critical Essay)
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This digital document is an article from Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 248 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Based on the scholarship in the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Africa, this work presents Africa, from Egypt to Cape Town and from prehistoric times to the present day. This set spans many disciplines, covering animals, foods, holidays and festivals, tribal groups, ecology, music and art, trade and economy, geography, religion, folklore, and fossil and skeletal discoveries. ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri. Ngugi went into exile following his release from a Kenyan prison in 1977; living in the United States, he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since also taught at New York University, with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, and the University of California, Irvine. "The reason why Ngugi is the greatest writer to have come from East and Central Africa is because, like Peter Abrahams in South Africa and Chinua Achebe in West Africa, he writes about big subjects." "The three writers are for literature what Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela are for politics." It has been noted that "it is very difficult for writers like Meja Mwangi, Francis D. Imbuga and Jared Angira to enjoy Ngugi's prominence, because the paths they have chosen are smaller. They do not directly draw from history." Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in Kiambu district, Kenya, of Kĩkũyũ descent, and baptised James Ngugi. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion; he lost his stepbrother, and his mother was tortured. He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda, in 1963; during his education, a play of his, The Black Hermit, was produced in Kampala in 1962. He published his first novel, Weep Not, Child, in 1964, which he wrote while attending the University of Leeds in England. It was the first novel in English to be published by an East African. His second novel, The River Between (1965), has as its background the Mau Mau rebellion, and described an unhappy romance between Christians and non-Christians. The River Betw...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Title: Critical Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o. (Kenya).
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Chapters: Jomo Kenyatta, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley, Koigi wa Wamwere, Gibson Kamau Kuria, G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Francis Kimanzi Mbaya,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1894 - 22 August 1978) served as the first Prime Minister (1963-1964) and President (1964-1978) of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation. In Kenya, Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi's main street and main streets in many cities and towns, numerous schools, two Universities (Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology), the country's main referral hospital, markets, and housing estates are named after Jomo Kenyatta. A statue in downtown Nairobi and monuments all over Kenya stand in his honour. Kenya observes a public holiday every 20 October in his honour. His face adorns Kenyan currency notes and coins of all denominations. Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau wa Muigai to parents Muigai and Wambui in the village of Gatundu, in British East Africa (now Kenya), a member of Kikuyu people. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid 1890s, is unclear, and was unclear even to him, as his parents were almost certainly not literate, and no formal birth records of native Africans were kept in Kenya at that time. His father died while Kamau was very young after which, as per custom, he was adopted by his uncle Ngengi, who also inherited his mother, to become Kamau wa Ngengi. When his mother died during childbirth, young Kamau moved from Ng'enda to Muthiga to live with his medicine man grandfather Kũngũ wa Magana, to whom he became very close. He then left home to become a resident pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM) at Tho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=171148 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o, Margaret Ogola, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Charles Mangua, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ngg wa Thiong'o (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gky. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri. Ngugi went into exile following his release from a Kenyan prison in 1977; living in the United States, he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since also taught at New York University, with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, and the University of California, Irvine. "The reason why Ngugi is the greatest writer to have come from East and Central Africa is because, like Peter Abrahams in South Africa and Chinua Achebe in West Africa, he writes about big subjects." "The three writers are for literature what Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela are for politics." It has been noted that "it is very difficult for writers like Meja Mwangi, Francis D. Imbuga and Jared Angira to enjoy Ngugi's prominence, because the paths they have chosen are smaller. They do not directly draw from history." Ngg was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in Kiambu district, Kenya, of Kky descent, and baptised James Ngugi. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion; he lost his stepbrother, and his mother was tortured. He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda, in 1963; during his education, a play of his, The Black Hermit, was produced in Kampala in 1962. He published his first novel, Weep Not, Child, in 1964, which he wrote while attending the Univ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=198401 ... Read more