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A thought-provoking and moving memoir, it chronicles the life of one of the greatest writers of our time. `Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s. Campus is a haven of opportunity for the brightest African students, a meeting place for thinkers and writers from all over the world, and its alumni are filling Africa's emerging political and cultural positions. Despite the challenges he faces as a young black man in a British colony, it is here that Ngugi begins to find his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa enter the final stages of their independence struggles
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Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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- Année de publication
- 2016
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Éditeur
- Harvill Secker
- Publié
- 2016
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1784701300
- ISBN13
- 9781784701307
- Séries
- Mémoires
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Autobiographies et mémoires, Écriture, Littérature africaine, Kenya
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- A thought-provoking and moving memoir, it chronicles the life of one of the greatest writers of our time. `Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s. Campus is a haven of opportunity for the brightest African students, a meeting place for thinkers and writers from all over the world, and its alumni are filling Africa's emerging political and cultural positions. Despite the challenges he faces as a young black man in a British colony, it is here that Ngugi begins to find his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa enter the final stages of their independence struggles