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            <text>Wa Thiong'o, N. (2017). &lt;i&gt;Devil on the Cross (Vol. 5).&lt;/i&gt; Penguin. &lt;a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/devil-on-the-cross-9780143107361" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://www.penguin.com.au/books/devil-on-the-cross-9780143107361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wa Thiong'o, N. (2012). &lt;i&gt;Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Columbia University Press. &lt;a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/globalectics/9780231159517" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;http://cup.columbia.edu/book/globalectics/9780231159517&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wa Thiong'o, N. (2009). &lt;i&gt;Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance&lt;/i&gt;. Basic Civitas Books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Wa Thiongʼo, N. (1997). &lt;i&gt;Writers in politics: A re-engagement with issues of literature and society&lt;/i&gt;. Boydell &amp;amp; Brewer. &lt;a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/9780852555415/writers-in-politics/"&gt;https://boydellandbrewer.com/9780852555415/writers-in-politics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;br /&gt;Wa Thiong’o, N. (1993).&lt;i&gt; Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms&lt;/i&gt;. Boydell &amp;amp; Brewer. &lt;a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/9780852555309/moving-the-centre/"&gt;https://boydellandbrewer.com/9780852555309/moving-the-centre/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wa Thiong'o, N. (1992). &lt;i&gt;Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature.&lt;/i&gt; East African Publishers. Accessed December 3, 2022. &lt;a href="https://archive.org/details/decolonisingmind00ngug" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://archive.org/details/decolonisingmind00ngug&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>Yiğit, A. (2022). Reflections on Kenya’s Economic Impasses: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Wizard of the Crow. &lt;i&gt;Research in African Literatures&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;53&lt;/em&gt;(2), 110–130. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.2.07" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.2.07&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reyna, J. O. (2021). Opening the linguistic jail: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo and its philosophy of practice. &lt;em&gt;Revista de Filosofia: Aurora&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;33&lt;/em&gt;(59), 510–527. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.33.059.DS10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.33.059.DS10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Himmelman, N. (2019). Translation as Conversation: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Euskara. &lt;i&gt;Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;56&lt;/em&gt;(1), 143–147. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sivasasipoorani, M. (2017). Impact of Colonialism in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between.&lt;i&gt; Language in India&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;17&lt;/em&gt;(2), 415–430. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeppie, S. and Bachir Diagne, S (2009) The Meanings of Timbuktu, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). HSRC Press. Accessed January 10, 2023. &lt;a href="https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/the-meanings-of-timbuktu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/the-meanings-of-timbuktu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Uwasomba, C. (2006). The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross. &lt;i&gt;The Journal of Pan African Studies&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;1&lt;/i&gt;(6), 94-108.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;br /&gt;Gikandi, S. (2000). &lt;i&gt;Ngugi wa Thiong’o.&lt;/i&gt; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mpofu, W.J. (2016) Devil on the cross: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's politics of decolonization. In Gatsheni, S.J. and Zondi, S (Eds.), &lt;i&gt;Decolonizing the university, knowledge systems and disciplines in Africa. &lt;/i&gt;Carolina Academic Press.</text>
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