Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...THIONGO engoo ge wa te-ong go or James Ngugi, 1938 , Kenyan writer, acclaimed as East Africas foremost novelist. He studied...Ngugi wrote about his prison experience in Detained: A Writers Prison Diary (1981). After his release, he continued...corruption, venality, and shape-shifting magic in a fictional postcolonial country resembling his homeland and other 20th-century...