Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He attended primary schools in Kenya, then University in Kampala, Uganda and Britain. Ngugi burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962, as part of the celebration of Uganda’s Independence. He has continued to write prolifically in a career that has spanned more than fifty years, and is the author of novels Weep Not Child, The River Between, and A Grain of Wheat, in addition to many short stories, plays, pieces of journalism, and academic scholarship.

For more about Ngugi wa and his works, go to http://www.ngugiwathiongo.com/