An Audience with Ngugi wa Thiong'o
An Audience with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
World-famous novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o launches his autobiography Dreams in a Time of War at the Birmingham Library Theatre, Sat 6 Mar. This is his only appearance to take place in the Midlands, and the event will include a wine reception and book signing.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is one of the giants of African literature and a world-famous novelist, author of A Grain of Wheat (1967), The River Between (1965), Weep Not Child (1964), Petals of Blood (1977), Devil on the Cross (published 1981), Matigari (1986), and the seminal collection of political essays Decolonising the Mind (1986).
Since coming to prominence in the 1960s he has been imprisoned, prevented from staging plays by government troops, and had his books impounded by the Kenyan authorities under farcical circumstances.
Ngũgĩ is visiting the UK from New York to launch his autobiography Dreams in a Time of War, a witty and moving memoir that describes his life as the fifth child of his father’s third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers, against a backdrop of World War II and the violent Mau Mau uprising of the Kikuyu clan against the British.
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Venue: Birmingham Library Theatre, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3HQ
Date: Sat 6 Mar 2010
Time: 6pm (Wine reception)
Tickets: £6 (£4)
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