An Overview
Five essays relating to the author on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism.
Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literat
Description of Simon Gikandi's study of Ngugi's works. Includes chapter contents and ordering information.
Emory University Post-Colonial Studies: Ngugi wa T
Includes biographical background, discussion of major themes, and descriptions of the author's works.
Kenyan Writer Jailed
Article by Edward Hower from The New York Review of Books requesting that Ngugi be freed.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Includes a biography and a list of works. Several of these include plot summaries, and excerpts from book reviews and from the books themselves. Also includes links to similar authors.
Pegasos: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Biographical information, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Release Ngugi
Letter by nineteen American authors expressing their concern at the detention of Ngugi, published in The New York Review of Books.
Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of B
Analysis of the 1977 novel "Petals of Blood" by an English literature graduate student at San Francisco State University.
Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of B
Marxist analysis of the Kenyan (Gikuyu) writer's novel Petals of Blood.