Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening

Author:   Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
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9781784701307


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 November 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9781784701307


ISBN 10:   1784701300
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 November 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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I particularly loved [Birth of A Dream Weaver]... Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian, Book of the Year * The book tracks the blossoming of a politically conscious young writer's talent in the nurturing environment that was Makerere in its prime. Egged on by fellow students, encouraged by the progressive dean Hugh Dinwiddy and offered tips by a visiting Chinua Achebe, Ngugi finds his creative voice just as a continent is finding its freedom. The convictions he forms will last a lifetime: the quest for African dignity and self-realization, a rejection of Western hegemony, a passionate call for Africans to tell their own story in their own indigenous languages. -- Michela Wrong * New York Times * Ngugi has written an autobiographical masterpiece... a riveting read in African history and literature * Library Journal, STARRED review * Ngugi wa Thiong'o recalls his upbringing in colonial Kenya... Mr Ngugi's unstated goal throughout this book is reclamation...of much of the colonial endeavour in east Africa. * Economist *


I particularly loved [Birth of A Dream Weaver]… Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian, Book of the Year * The book tracks the blossoming of a politically conscious young writer’s talent in the nurturing environment that was Makerere in its prime. Egged on by fellow students, encouraged by the progressive dean Hugh Dinwiddy and offered tips by a visiting Chinua Achebe, Ngugi finds his creative voice just as a continent is finding its freedom. The convictions he forms will last a lifetime: the quest for African dignity and self-realization, a rejection of Western hegemony, a passionate call for Africans to tell their own story in their own indigenous languages. -- Michela Wrong * New York Times * Ngugi has written an autobiographical masterpiece... a riveting read in African history and literature * Library Journal, STARRED review * Ngugi wa Thiong’o recalls his upbringing in colonial Kenya... Mr Ngugi’s unstated goal throughout this book is reclamation...of much of the colonial endeavour in east Africa. * Economist * A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o * Guardian *


I particularly loved [Birth of A Dream Weaver]... Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Guardian, Book of the Year The book tracks the blossoming of a politically conscious young writer's talent in the nurturing environment that was Makerere in its prime. Egged on by fellow students, encouraged by the progressive dean Hugh Dinwiddy and offered tips by a visiting Chinua Achebe, Ngugi finds his creative voice just as a continent is finding its freedom. The convictions he forms will last a lifetime: the quest for African dignity and self-realization, a rejection of Western hegemony, a passionate call for Africans to tell their own story in their own indigenous languages. -- Michela Wrong New York Times Ngugi has written an autobiographical masterpiece... a riveting read in African history and literature Library Journal, STARRED review Ngugi wa Thiong'o recalls his upbringing in colonial Kenya... Mr Ngugi's unstated goal throughout this book is reclamation...of much of the colonial endeavour in east Africa. Economist


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Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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