BOOKS by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 2

sort by

1	Weep Not Child more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Ngugi add to wishlist Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family must decide where their loyalties lie. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $10.23!
2	The River Between more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O add to wishlist Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.28! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	Weep Not Child by Ngugi W Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist see all copies from $6.72! new only from $6.72! \| signed copies
4	Wizard of the Crow more books like this by Ngugi Wa'thiong'o add to wishlist From an exiled Kenyan novelist comes this magisterial comic novel that reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, this novel seamlessly blends stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $10.46! \| SVS
5	Grain of Wheat more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O add to wishlist Ngugi takes the reader back to the days preceding Kenya's independence. Mugo, a farmer and hero in the eyes of the villagers, is asked to deliver a speech during the Uhuru celebrations, to be held in memory of his friend Kihika. He refuses to make a speech and turns out to be a traitor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.95! \| first editions
6	Devil on the Cross more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O add to wishlist This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.56!
7	Petals of Blood more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngguggi, Moses Isegawa (Introduction by) add to wishlist The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, "Petals of Blood" is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
8	Matigari more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Wangui Wa Goro (Translator) add to wishlist A moral fable in which Martigari, a freedom fighter, emerges from the forest in the political dawn of post-independence Kenya. Searching for his family and a new future, he finds little has changed. see all copies from $2.67! new only from $14.64! \| first editions
9	Wizard of the Crow more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist An exiled Kenyan writer has set his bleakly comic novel in a mythical "Free Republic of Aburiria," which is ruled by His High Mighty Excellency and controlled by the Global Bank. As the country's elite struggles for power and control, the average citizen must struggle simply to survive. see all copies from $4.26! new only from $4.26! \| first editions
10	Petals of Blood more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Ngugi W Thiong'o add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| SVS
11	Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi add to wishlist One of Africa's greatest writers ("San Francisco Chronicle") makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	Fault Lines more books like this by Meena Alexander, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Preface by) add to wishlist From India to Sudan to England, and finally to the island of Manhattan, poet Meena Alexander traces her growth as a writer and a woman over borders, through decades, and across cultures. Memories of a privileged childhood in post-colonial India and Africa surface amid her present life in multicultural America. This courageous and candid memoir was ... see all copies from $2.33! new only from $10.33! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories more books like this by Bessie Head, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist From origin myths to tales of modern prostitutes in search of dignity - even for only one moment - these powerful stories by two of Africa's most renowned twentieth century authors explore African cultures at the intersection of tradition and modernity, colonialism and independence. Botswana's first lady of writing, Bessie Head, and East Africa's ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $4.94! \| SVS
14 view cover	Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature more books like this by Ngugi Wa'thiong'o add to wishlist A summary of some of the issues in which Ngugi has been passionately involved. see all copies from $12.95! new only from $16.97! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Ethics on the Frontiers of Human Existence more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Paul Badham (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! new only from $6.49! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Black Hermit more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O add to wishlist Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people? Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town? see all copies from $6.86! new only from $11.27!
17	Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms more books like this by Ngugi W Thiong'o, Ngguggi, Wa Thiong'o Ngugi add to wishlist In this collection of essays and lectures Ngugi is concerned with "moving the center" in two sensesbetween nation and within nationsin order to free world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race, and gender. see all copies from $16.00! new only from $29.95!
18 view cover	Moving the Centre: Struggle for Cultural Freedoms more books like this by Ngguggi, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist 'If reading Ngugi's fiction can stir people from stupor, reading his non-fiction works can only do that in greater measure. He has significantly contributed to moving the center through his many years of resistance and writing both fiction and non-fiction in English and especially in Kikuyu' - Nikhil Aziz in "Africa Today".'The compelling ... see all copies from $16.60! new only from $17.50!
19 view cover	Detained more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Ngguggi add to wishlist The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life. see all copies from $13.03!
20	Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngdugdi add to wishlist see all copies from $8.35!
21 view cover	Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist '...many of the ideas are familiar from Ngugi's earlier critical books, and earlier lectures, elsewhere. But the material here has a new context and the ideas a new focus. This leading African writer presents the arguments for using African language and forms after successfully using an African language himself' - Anne Walmsley in "The Guardian".' ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $24.95!
22	Matigari more books like this by Wangui Wa Goro (Translator), Ngugi Wa Thiong'O add to wishlist see all copies from $19.63!
23 view cover	Writers in Politics: A Re-Engagement with Issues of Literature and Society more books like this by Ngugi W Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngguggi Wa Thiong'o add to wishlist A collection of essays by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. see all copies from $53.20! new only from $53.20!
24 view cover	Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer more books like this by Ngguggi Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiongo add to wishlist see all copies from $49.95! new only from $49.95!
25	Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya more books like this by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Victoria Brittain (Designed by) add to wishlist see all copies from $13.07!

Page 1 of 2: 1 2 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe see all from $1.99! new only from $4.96!
	Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga see all from $1.99! new only from $8.99!
	Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson see all from $2.04! new only from $11.33!
	Ngugi Wa Thiong'o by Patrick Williams see all from $15.00! new only from $33.10!
	Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono see all from $4.50! new only from $11.88!
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain see all from $1.99! new only from $1.99!