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A powerful memoir of an extraordinary Kenyan childhood by an international literary giant

About the Author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the university of California, Irvine, and is director of the university's International Centre for Writing and Translation. His books include Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977 and Wizard of the Crow, which was published by Harvill Secker to great acclaim in 2006. He lives in Irvine, California.

Reviews

In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents
*The New Yorker*