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Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Ngugi Wa Thiong´o
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Description for Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Hardback. IN Series: SB - The Africa List. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality. With both hope and disappointment, he questions the role of language in both the organization of power structures and the pursuit of autonomy and self-expression. Ngugi's fiction has reached wide acclaim, ... Read more
For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality. With both hope and disappointment, he questions the role of language in both the organization of power structures and the pursuit of autonomy and self-expression. Ngugi's fiction has reached wide acclaim, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
Series
SB - The Africa List
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423139
SKU
V9780857423139
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About Ngugi Wa Thiong´o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is distinguished professor in the School of Humanities and director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many fiction and nonfiction books, including, The River Between and Petals of Blood.
Reviews for Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Wa Thiong'o is the person many believe should have won [the 2016 Nobel]. . . . Wa Thing'o's anger at the British moral hypocirzy is conveyed through characteristically elegant and restrained prose. . . . Wa Thiong'o's vision is beautiful and inspiring.
Times Literary Supplement This book does not only add to the fodder of literature in the area ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement This book does not only add to the fodder of literature in the area ... Read more