Wa : 71 books
I Refuse to Die
My Journey For Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the Kenyan people,...
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal...
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 12, 2015
La gran novela africana por el firme candidato al premio Nobel que aprenderás a pronunciar: Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Exiliado de su Kenia natal desde hace más de veinticinco años, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, uno de los escritores africanos más importantes de la actualidad, sitúa esta historia en la imaginaria...
Beyond the Clash of Civilizations
A New Cultural Synthesis for Muslims in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
In todays ever-changing and often uncertain world, encouraging healthy dialogue between all cultures and religions is vital. In Beyond the Clash of Civilizations, Mohamed Wa Baile carefully explores how Muslims and people of other faiths can achieve a peaceful coexistence instead of being victims...
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry...
The Rise of the African Novel
Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This tell-all memoir reveals the details behind Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika's exposure of the R1.7 billion lease scandal between police commissioner Bheki Cele and property tycoon Roux Shabangu, for which he was infamously arrested in 2010. It is also the riveting account of how a...
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Um das principais vozes da literatura africana contemporânea e frequentemente cotado para receber o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o revisita sua infância em Sonhos em tempo de guerra, primeiro volume de suas memórias. O escritor nasceu em 1938, em uma região rural do Quênia,...
In the Name of the Mother
Reflections on Writers and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Renowned 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 Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced...
Nest of Stones
Kenyan Narratives in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Wanjohi wa Makokha�s Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa Namwalie�s Cut off my Tongue (Storymoja: 2009), devoted in principal to the moment of the 2007-2008 Kenyan Crisis. The crisis is locally known as the Post-Election Violence (PEV). The book collects over...
Negative Ethnicity
From Bias to Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues...
Scrivere per la pace
Rendere l'Africa visibile al mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Per oltre sessant’anni, Ngu˜gı˜ wa Thiong’o ha scritto dell’Africa con indomito coraggio, affrontando domande, ponendo sfide, raccogliendo storie e provando a immaginare un futuro possibile per il suo continente. Nella sua ampia produzione letteraria, Scrivere per la pace rappresenta il punto...
Wrestling with the Devil
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**A New York Times Editors’ Choice
"A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit."
—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review
"Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful...
Descolonizar la mente
La política lingüística de la literatura africana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Un compendio de los temas centrales de la obra del autor: la confrontación entre el neocolonialismo y la clase trabajadora, y su reflejo en la cultura africana.
Descolonizar la mente es una referencia ineludible en el debate lingüístico que tiene lugar en el marco de los estudios poscoloniales....