Article: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts.

7-9 April 1994 saw the largest gathering an African writer has ever attracted in the United States. More than 200 scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States had come together to celebrate the work of the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The venue was the Berks campus of Penn State University in Reading, where over 150 papers were read in three days. The poems and essays collected in these two volumes represent a generous sampling from those readings. Studded with work by such outstanding writer-critics as Amiri Baraka, Kamau Braithwaite, Lewis Nkosi, Odun Balogun, Nell Lazarus, Simon Gikandi and Carol Sicherman, these volumes represent the most valuable ...

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