The World of Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

"The World of Ngugi wa Thiong'o surveys the wide variety of Ngugi's works, from the beginning to the most recent, including essays on all of his novels, books of essays and writings for children. Extensive discussions of Ngugi's writing in English and Gikuyu, his use of oral literary techniques, his tragic exile, his renowned visions of African, colonial and neocolonial history, his revolutionary and contemporary politics, his critical recognition that the quality of human relationships is always at the center of his work - a vision reinforced by the book's powerful images of Ngugi's world by Lawrence F. Sykes."--BOOK JACKET.