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Article: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer
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- African Studies Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Reinhard Sander, Bernth Lindfors, and Lynette Citron, eds. Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2006. xxvi + 445 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.
This is an invaluable collection of interviews with Ngugi wa Thiong'o, one of the foremost African writers and a key theorist of the social and political conditions in the global South. Ngugi never disappoints students of African literature because of the energy, poignancy, and verve with which he discusses relations between the developed countries and the less developed nations. Although he excoriates the West for its contribution to the malaise facing Africa today, he is most ...