Ngũgĩ wa thiong’o – a giant of African literature

NGhũgĩ wa thiong’o who died at the age of 87, The titanium of modern African literature was a storyteller who refused to be associated with prison, exile and illness.

His work documented about six decades, first of all the transformation of his country – Kenya – the transformation of the colonial into democracy.

NGEGĩ, leaving the medal from a medal from a medal, leaving the Nobel Prize for literature, won the NGEGĩ and fans every time the medal slipped with the medal.

It will not only be remembered as a fierce side of literature written in local African literature but also not like a decent writer.

In 1938, NGũgĩ NGHINGĩ NGINGĩ was born when Kenya is under the British colonial power. Medium-income agricultural workers grew up in the city of Limuru.

Parents fled a boarding school by English missionaries, studied and rescued to study in the Alliance.

One interviewNGGegĩ reminded me to return home from the Terminal Union to find the whole village.

Family members, hundreds and thousands, and independence fighters were forced to live within a raid on MAU MAU, which was moving.

DisgraceFrom 1952 to 1960 to the 1960s, NGHINGĩ’nin touched in the life of many, destructively.

In one of the most crushing, NGGegĩ’s brother Gitogo was deadly from behind to refrain from rejecting the English soldier’s order.

Gitogo did not hear the command because he was deaf.

In 1959, the British went to study Nggegĩ Uganda, who struggled to protect his grips in Kenya. One of the most influential universities in Africa entered the University of Makeerere.

During a writer conference in Makerere, NGGegĩ shared a manuscript for the debut novel by the author Chinua Achebe.

Achebe, not publishers and broadcasts in the UK, was released for critical approval in 1964 in 1964. The first basic English-speaking novel to be written by East Africa.

NGEgĩ quickly followed two more popular novels, a grain wheat and river. In 1972, the UK’s Times newspaper, 33-year-old Ngũgĩ, “It was accepted as one of the prominent modern writers in Africa,” he said.

Then 1977 – Nggegĩin a period that marks a great change in life and career. For beginnings, this was the year with NGHINGĩ WA Thiong and poured the birth name, James. NGũgĩ made a change when asked for a name free from the colonial effect.

He also threw English as a primary language for English literature and promised to write to Kikuyu only in the native language.

In 1977, the latest English novel, published blood petals.

The previous books of NGGegĩ were critical of the colonial state, but the blood petals described the new leaders of the independent Kenya as an elite class that betrayed them in ordinary Kenyan.

NGhũgĩ did not stop there. In the same year, Ngaahika Ndenda (I will get married) play with Kenya’s class struggle.

His theater run was closed by the government, then President Jomo Kenyatta and NGũgĩ were locked in a maximum security prison for a year without judgment.

At the same time, a bearing was a 12 month – NGilegĩ, the first Kikuyu novel, prison in prison, the first Kikuyu in prison wrote the novel. Since it does not sign in to a notebook, the toilet paper has used it to write the entire book.

Daniel Arap Moi was released after Mr. Kenyatta was changed as President.

NGũgĩ, four years later, said to launch a book in London Learned that he was a plot to kill him When he returned to Kenya.

NGũgĩ began exile in the UK and then in the United States. He has not returned to Kenya for 22 years.

When I finally returned a hero was pleasing – thousands of kenyans became known to greet him.

The arrests entered the apartment of the NGGegĩ, they were defective when they attacked the author and raped his wife.

Ngugi He insisted the aggression was “political”.

Yale returned to the United States, where he was professored at universities, including New York and California Irvine.

The Academy was recognized as one of the most advanced defenders in the literature written in African, NGGegĩ in Africa.

Books written in official languages ​​in English or French, in English or French languages ​​- in English literature in English or French and most countries.

“What is the difference between Africa without imperialism and writing that Africa cannot do without European languages?” NGEgĩ asked a seminal, a fiery set of fiery essay.

In one part, NGGegĩ Chinua Achebe – called the author to start his career – to write in English. As a result, the meaning of their friendship.

Far from the literary career, NGHINGĩ married – and divorced – twice. There were nine children, four of them are published.

“My own family turned into one of my literary competitors,” NGHINGĩ joke in 2020 Interview of La Times.

The son of Mukoma WA NGũgĩ claimed to be physically abused by his mother’s NGlineGĩ WA Thiong.

“Some of my earliest memoirs have written in my grandmother’s shelter in my grandmother,” Son NGHILĩ WA Thiong “in the social media post.

NGGegĩ’s health deteriorated in his life later. In 2019, the triplet heard the Bypass operation and began to fight with kidney failure. In 1995, prostate cancer was diagnosed and given to live three months.

NGũgĩ has restored, but added to the long-term list of struggles fighting by adding cancer.

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