Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Birth Date

1938

Birthplace

Gĩkũyũ, Kenya

Primary Sources

Wa Thiong'o, N. (2017). Devil on the Cross (Vol. 5). Penguin.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/devil-on-the-cross-9780143107361

Wa Thiong'o, N. (2012). Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. New York: Columbia University Press.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/globalectics/9780231159517

Wa Thiong'o, N. (2009). Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance. New York: Basic Civitas Books, Member of Perseis books Group. ISBN 978-0-465-00946-6

Wa Thiong'o, N. (1997). Writers in politics: A re-engagement with issues of literature & society. Boydell & Brewer. 043591751X

Wa Thiong’o, N. (1993). Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. London: James Currey.

Wa Thiong'o, N. (1992). Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature. East African Publishers. Accessed Dec 3 2022.
https://archive.org/details/decolonisingmind00ngug

Secondary Sources

Yiğit, A. (2022). Reflections on Kenya’s Economic Impasses: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Wizard of the Crow. Research in African Literatures, 53(2), 110–130.
https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.2.07

Reyna, J. O. (2021). Opening the linguistic jail: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo and its philosophy of practice. Revista de Filosofia: Aurora, 33(59), 510–527.
https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.33.059.DS10

Himmelman, N. (2019). Translation as Conversation: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Euskara. Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 56(1), 143–147.

Sivasasipoorani, M. (2017). Impact of Colonialism in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between. Language in India, 17(2), 415–430.

Jeppie, S. and Bachir Diagne, S (2009) The Meanings of Timbuktu, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).HSRC Press. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0796922045, Open Access, Accessed Jan 10, 2023.
https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/the-meanings-of-timbuktu

Uwasomba, C. (2006). The politics of resistance and liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross. Journal of Pan African Studies, 1(6), 94.

Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Mpofu, W.J. (2016) Devil on the cross: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's politics of decolonization, In Gatsheni, S.J. and Zondi, S (Eds). Decolonizing the university, knowledge systems and disciplines in Africa, Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781611638332.

Extra Resources

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Homepage, Accessed Dec 10 2022.
https://ngugiwathiongo.com/

Mwangi, Evan "Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o". In Oxford Bibliographies, in African Studies, Accessed 27 Aug. 2022.
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0137.xml

Shringarpure, B., & Popescu, M. (2019). The Cold War and the African Writer: An Interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Research in African Literatures, 50(3), 1–3.
https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.50.3.02

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Europe and the West must also be decolonised. Sep 10, 2019, Cultural Research and Innovation Lab, YouTube, Accessed Dec 10 2022,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOXqc-8zCPE

Collection

Citation

“Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/26.

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