Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Culture and Globalization

“Culture and Globalization”

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at University of California, Irvine, The Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, is an accomplished and controversial novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist. Deeply influenced by his experiences of British colonialism and Africa's independence and post-independence struggles, his work is critical of the inequalities and injustices of Kenyan society and passionate about the need for Africans to resist the imposition of colonial languages and communicate in their native languages.

Ngugi is the author of Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967) and Petals of Blood (1977). In 1980 he published the first modern novel ever written in Gikuyu called Devil on the Cross. Ngugi's critical works include Homecoming (1972), Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), Decolonizing the Mind (1986), Moving the Center (1993), and Wizard of the Crow (2006). He is the recipient of many honors including the Nonino International Prize for Literature (2001).

Date: Wednesday, April 30th
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Place: Burns Hall 2121/2125

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