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Article: Oliver Lovesey Ngugi wa Thiong'o.(Book Review)
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- International Fiction Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000. Pp. 164. $33.00
Oliver Lovesey has provided a compact, insightful, and illuminating look at a writer of remarkable personal history and talent. Lovesey provides a careful assessment of the place of Ngugi wa Thiong'o in African and World literature. Lovesey's work is divided into five chapters: The introductory chapter deals with a brief history of Kenya, Ngugi's life and career, and an overview of his evolution as a postcolonial theorist. The succeeding chapters deal, respectively, with his early and later fictions, Ngugi as playwright and filmmaker, and his nonfiction writings. At the outset, and with clarity and efficiency, ...