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In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents The New Yorker
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In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdrop of World War II, which affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya at this time begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through telling the story of his grandparents and parents and of his brothers' involvement on different sides of the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi wa Thiong'o takes us back to a momentous period in Kenyan history, deftly etching a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war. This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN's Writers in Translation programme supported by Bloomberg. English PEN exists to promote literature and its understanding, uphold writers' freedoms around the world, campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and promote the friendly co-operation of writers and free exchange of ideas.
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A wistful and lyrical recollection of a Kenyan childhood
10. März 2011
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Some of the best times from Ngugi wa Thiong'o's childhood were evenings spent around the fireside in the hut of his oldest step-mother, listening to stories, inspiring him to a life-long love of storytelling, as recounted in this book. Sometimes the stories touched on events happening in the real world, such as the political efforts of Harry Thuku to end colonial rule in Kenya, and the strange story of a white man, Hitler, in a far-away country who refused to shake the hand of the fastest man in the world, Jesse Owens, because he was black.
The stories of the struggle to end colonialism blended into reality in the author's life with the advent of the Mau Mau rebellion and the increasing approach of violence and repression. His older brother narrowly escaped custody and then went to join the rebels in the hills, leaving his mother and siblings in an awkward position with the authorities. The book tells the story of Ngugi's early life as one of many children in a polygamous household, his alienation from his father, his mother's efforts to send him to school, and his eventual triumph in winning a place against the odds in a highly regarded secondary school.
This is a beautifully written book. Stories from the author's childhood are told in a wistful and lyrical manner, while at the same time the author provides a personal perspective on the political climate in Kenya as the events leading to independence took place. The optimism with which Kenyans looked forward to controlling their own political destiny must have been sorely dashed by the country's subsequent troubled history; nevertheless, the book finishes when the author is still a child and his dreams for the future are intact.
The stories of the struggle to end colonialism blended into reality in the author's life with the advent of the Mau Mau rebellion and the increasing approach of violence and repression. His older brother narrowly escaped custody and then went to join the rebels in the hills, leaving his mother and siblings in an awkward position with the authorities. The book tells the story of Ngugi's early life as one of many children in a polygamous household, his alienation from his father, his mother's efforts to send him to school, and his eventual triumph in winning a place against the odds in a highly regarded secondary school.
This is a beautifully written book. Stories from the author's childhood are told in a wistful and lyrical manner, while at the same time the author provides a personal perspective on the political climate in Kenya as the events leading to independence took place. The optimism with which Kenyans looked forward to controlling their own political destiny must have been sorely dashed by the country's subsequent troubled history; nevertheless, the book finishes when the author is still a child and his dreams for the future are intact.
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