Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
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Weep Not, Child
$17.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel
Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train- Series: Penguin African Writers #3
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106694
- Language: English
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Wizard of the Crow
$19.00 Read moreA landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.
“Wizard of the Crow is fir- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033845
- Language: English
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
$25.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book
“One of the greatest writers of o
Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979322
- Language: English
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Devil on the Cross
$17.00 Add to cartThe great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee’s novel that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison–featuring an introduction by Namwali Serpell, the author of the novel The Old Drift
On… [more below]- Series: Penguin African Writers #5
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0143107364
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi
$33.98 Read moreA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have rec
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975254
- Language: English
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The River Between
$16.00 Add to cartA 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee
A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly capt- Series: Penguin African Writers #4
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107496
- Language: English
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Weep Not, Child
$17.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel
Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train- Series: Penguin African Writers #3
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106694
- Language: English
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Petals of Blood
$17.00 Read more“The definitive African book of the twentieth century“ (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-own- Series: Penguin African Writers #1
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039172
- Language: English
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A Grain of Wheat
$18.00 Add to cartBarack Obama, via Facebook “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”
The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer‘s best-known novel, fea- Series: Penguin African Writers #2
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106767
- Language: English
