From an exiled Kenyan novelist comes this magisterial comic novel that reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, this novel seamlessly blends…

In the House of the Interpreter tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence. During the early fifties, Kenya…

First published in the United Kingdom in the Heinemann African Writers Series as Secret Lives and Other Stories, 1975. A new edition was published in the United Kingdom by Harvill…

Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman. As Wariinga struggles to…

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s writings on translation.

Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan…

Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngagawa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual…

A Study Guide for Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Petals of Blood, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…

On their fight to changing their societies, many African intellectuals have been committed to the denounciation of what they considered to be the major barriers that prevented their societies from…