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Ngũgĩn teoksista Detained (1981) sisältää hänen vankilapäiväkirjansa, Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) on essee, jossa Ngũgĩ vetoaa afrikkalaisia kirjailijoita kirjoittamaan omalla äidinkielellään, ja Matigari (1987), yksi hänen kuuluisimmista teoksistaan, on satiiri, joka perustuu kikujujen kansantarinaan. Ngũgĩ on työskennellyt useissa yliopistoissa Yhdysvalloissa.
His later works include Detained, his prison diary (1981), Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), an essay arguing for African writers' expression in their native languages rather than European languages, in order to renounce lingering colonial ties and to build an authentic African literature, and Matigari (1987), one of his most famous works, a satire based on a Gikuyu folktale.
Ngũgĩn teoksista Detained (1981) sisältää hänen vankilapäiväkirjansa, Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) on essee, jossa Ngũgĩ vetoaa afrikkalaisia kirjailijoita kirjoittamaan omalla äidinkielellään, ja Matigari (1987), yksi hänen kuuluisimmista teoksistaan, on satiiri, joka perustuu kikujujen kansantarinaan.
His later works include Detained, his prison diary (1981), Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), an essay arguing for African writers' expression in their native languages rather than European languages, in order to renounce lingering colonial ties and to build an authentic African literature, and Matigari(translated by Wangui wa Goro), (1987), one of his most famous works, a satire based on a Gikuyu folk tale.
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