His work serves as an important theoretical gloss for writers like Ghana's Ayi Kwei Armah, Senegal's Ken Bugul and Ousmane Sembène, Zimbabwe's Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o.

* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o.

As a consequence, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o and Meja Mwangi.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini ( 1981 ), Matigari ( 1986 ) and Murogi wa Kagogo ( Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 )) which is the largest known Kikuyu language novel having been translated into more than thirty languages

* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Author, literary scholar living in America, but considers being patriotic.

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* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o – A Grain of Wheat

* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o ( also known as James Ngigi )-Weep Not, Child

* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o ( also known as James Ngigi ) – The River Between

* Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, a 1972 book by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o writes in his native Gikuyu language though he previously wrote in English.

This section needs to be expanded with JM Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Cyril Dabydeen, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Raywat Deonandan, Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Alamgir Hashmi, Bonny Hicks, Hanif Kureishi, Doris Lessing, Earl Lovelace, Gabriel García Márquez, Bharati Mukherjee, Barbara Kingsolver, VS Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, RK Narayan, Mahashweta Devi, EM Forster, Anita Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Wilbur Smith, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Yvonne Vera, Derek Walcott, Kath Walker, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Haim Sabato, Eleanor Dark, Bole Butake, Anne Tanyi-Tang, Bate Besong, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Other useful critics are Bill Ashcroft, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Alamgir Hashmi, Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Leela Gandhi, Gareth Griffiths, Abiola Irele, John McLeod, Gayatri Spivak, Hamid Dabashi, Helen Tiffin, Khal Torabully, and Robert Young

He was known for his play, I Will Marry When I Want, which he co-authored with fellow Gikuyu writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o.

The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta and Okot p ' Bitek.

Achebe focused first on West African writers, but soon the series branched out, publishing the works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o in East Africa, and Nadine Gordimer in South Africa.

Some prominent writers, including Nuruddin Farah, Ali Mazrui, David Rubadiri, Okello Oculi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, John Ruganda, Paul Theroux, V. S. Naipaul and Peter Nazareth, were at Makerere University at one point in their writing and academic careers.

Ngũgĩ goes so far to argue in Decolonizing the Mind ( 1992 ) that it is " impossible to understand what informs African writing " without reading Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.

It was the birthplace of famous African writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o as well as that of Bishop Caesar Gatimu and activist P. Faith Fawaki.

Today, the UDLR has the support of many international personalities, some of whom include: Nelson Mandela, Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha, Ronald Harwood, Homero Aridjis, Noam Chomsky, José Ramos-Horta, Dalai Lama, Dr. M. Aram, Desmond Tutu, László Tőkés, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, José Carreras, Seamus Heaney, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Shimon Peres, Judit Mascó, Peter Gabriel and Joan Oró.

( Oruka later added two additional categories: literary / artistic philosophy, the work of literary figures such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Okot p ' Bitek, and Taban Lo Liyong, and hermeneutic philosophy the analysis of African languages in order to find philosophical content.

A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o.

* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o: author, novelist and playwright ; the most prominent figure in Kenyan literature ; has taught at Yale University and University of California, Irvine.

For example, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o rejected Christianity in 1976, and changed his original name from James Ngugi, which he saw as a sign of colonialism.

* Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, New York: G. K. Hall, 2000

The world of Ngugi wa Thiong ' o ( Africa World Press, 1995 ).

* January 5-Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o ( also known as James Ngigi ), Kenyan novelist

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