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Ngugi was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in the Kiambu district of Kenya, of Kikuyu descent, and baptized James Ngugi. While attending mission school, he became a devout Christian. He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda, in 1963; during his education, a play of his, The Black Hermit, was produced in Kampala in 1962. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion; he lost his stepbrother, and his mother was tortured.
He published his first novel, Weep Not, Child, in 1964, which he wrote while attending Leeds University in England. It was the first novel in English to be published by an East African. His second novel, The River Between ( 1965), had as its background the Mau Mau rebellion, and described an unhappy romance between Christians and non-Christians.
His novel A Grain of Wheat marked his embrace of Fanonist Marxism. He subsequently renounced English, Christianity, and the name James Ngugi as colonialistColonialism is a system in which a state claims sovereignty over territory and people outside its own boundaries, often to facilitate economic domination over their resources, labor, and often markets. The term also refers to a set of beliefs used to legi; he changed his name to Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and began to write in his native Gikuyu and SwahiliSwahili (also called Kiswahili see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people (much dispute exists over the identity of the Swahili pe. The uncensored political message of his 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) provoked President Daniel arap MoiDaniel Toroitich arap Moi (born September 2, 1924) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002. Born in Sacho, Baringo district, Rift Valley province, Daniel arap Moi was raised by his mother Kimoi Chebii following the early death of his father. After to order his arrest. While detained in the Kamithi Maximum Security Prison, he wrote another English novel, Petals of Blood ( 1978Events January January 1 The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay 213 dead. January 4 Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet.).
After his release, he was not reinstated to his job as professor at Nairobi University , and his family was harassed. He left Kenya on June 5June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. Events 1700-1899 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiere ( hot air balloon). 1817 First Great Lakes steamer, the Fr, 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, to live in self-imposed exile in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri.
In 1980 he published the first modern novel in Gikuyu, Caitaani muthara-Ini (Devil on the Cross). He argued that African writers should use their native languages when writing, rather than European languages, to build an authentic African literature.
Subsequent works include Detained, his prison diary ( 1981); Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature ( 1986), an essay arguing for African writers' expression in their native language; and Matigari ( 1987), one of his most famous works, a satire based on a Gikuyu folktale.
In 1992 he became a professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University, and held the Erich Maria Remarque Chair. He is currently Director of Faculty and Staff Counselling Centre at the University of California, Irvine, and heads the International Centre for Writing and Translation.
On August 8, 2004, Ngugi ended his exile to return to Kenya as part of a month-long tour of East Africa. On August 11, robbers broke into his apartment: they stole money and a computer, brutalised the professor, and raped his wife.
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