After a terrible murder in the village of Ilmorog, four suspects are placed in detention: Munira the headmaster; Abdullah the storekeeper; Karega the assistant teacher and 'barmaid' Wanja. The lives of these four characters are inextricably linked with the lives of the three murder victims, the fortunes of Ilmorog and with the fate of Kenya itself. Published to great controversy in 1977, "Petals of Blood" is as much a whodunnit as a political novel and satire. Ngugi unfolds a human landscape that is both beautiful and horrifying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats who came to power as heroes of liberation.

Petals of Blood

Literature & Fiction

Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa

Literary

Penguin??Books

A summary of some of the issues in which Ngugi has been passionately involved.

Decolonising the Mind

History & Criticism

Heinemann

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.

Moving the Centre (STUDIES IN AFRICAN LITERATURE NEW SERIES)

A collection of essays by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Writers in Politics (Studies in African Literature)

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.

MATIGARI (African Writers Series)

World Literature

E.P.Dutton

Homecoming

History

Africa

Apollo

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 preeminent writer Bessie Head and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the most significant East African writer” (the New York Times), each use the politics and history of Africa in the midst of change as background for compelling stories of characters who, like their countries, are in search of their identity. In different ways, Head and Ngugi also chart the uneasy coexistence of men and women when their individual natures and desires conflict with societal expectations and customs.

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories (Two By Two)

Head, Bessie

United States

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says "tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent" Ng&#361;g&#297; wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In his first attempt at the epic form, Ng&#361;g&#297; tells the story of the founding of the G&#297;k&#361;y&#361; people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the G&#297;k&#361;y&#361; founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters--called "The Perfect Nine" --and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice. Ng&#361;g&#297;'s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, "The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture."

The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa