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This category contains sites relating to the exiled Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o (formerly James Ngugi).

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Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Description of Simon Gikandi's study of Ngugi's works. Includes chapter contents and ordering information. uk.cambridge.org/literature/catalogue/052148006X

Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of Blood Analysis of the 1977 novel "Petals of Blood" by an English literature graduate student at San Francisco State University. userwww.sfsu.edu/~pdorn/Writing/ngugi.html

Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of Blood Marxist analysis of the Kenyan (Gikuyu) writer's novel Petals of Blood. www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/../../AfricanLit/Ngugi/NgugiDorn.htm

Release Ngugi Letter by nineteen American authors expressing their concern at the detention of Ngugi, published in The New York Review of Books. www.nybooks.com/articles/8125

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. bdagger.colorado.edu/~bhongale/ngugi.html

Pegasos: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Biographical information, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ngugiw.htm

An Overview Five essays relating to the author on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism. www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/ngugiov.html

Kenyan Writer Jailed Article by Edward Hower from The New York Review of Books requesting that Ngugi be freed. www.nybooks.com/articles/8181

Emory University Post-Colonial Studies: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Includes biographical background, discussion of major themes, and descriptions of the author's works. www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ngugi.html