Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.
North America: Heinemann; Kenya: EAEP
No US rights
Reviews
... many of the ideas are familiar from Ngugi's earlier critical books, and earlier lectures, elsewhere. But the material here has a new context and the ideas a new focus. This leading African writer presents the arguments for using African language andforms after successfully using an African language himself. - Anne Walmsley in THE GUARDIAN
... after 25 years of independence, there is beginning to emerge a generation of writers for whom colonialism is a matter of history and not of direct personal experience. In retrospect that literature characterised by Ngugi as Afro-European - the literature written by Africans in European languages - will come to be seen as part and parcel of the uneasy period between colonialism and full independence, a period equally reflected in the continent's political instability as it attempts to find its feet. Ngugi's importance - and that of this book - lies in the courage with which he has confronted this most urgent of issues. - Adewale Maja-Pearce in THE NEW STATESMAN
Details
First Published: 26 Jun 1986
13 Digit ISBN: 9780852555019
Pages: 128
Size: 22 x 14
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: James Currey
Subject:
African StudiesBIC Class: GTB
Details updated on 23 May 2013
