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\u003cb\u003eAlongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is \u003ci\u003eDecolonising the Mind\u003c/i\u003e, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.\u003cbr\u003e These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original. He makes us look again at their novels to address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of literature in political as well asliterary terms. They will appeal not only to his international band of supporters. They will also introduce his views to young people discovering African and Caribbean literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Ngugi is renowned for his essays, including the seminal \u003ci\u003eDecolonising the Mind\u003c/i\u003e (James Currey 1986); his plays, which led to his detentionin Kenya; his novels - the most recent works being \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of the Crow\u003c/i\u003e (2007, translated into English from Gikuyu) and his memoirs \u003ci\u003eDreams in a Time of War\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the House of the Interpreter\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP |
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