During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While the author enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi things are changing at home. This book tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence.

A grain of wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, making this novel one of stories within stories - a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta.

The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful fictional critique of capitalism

One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal...

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee

A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.

For more than seventy...

`Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favoured for the Nobel Prize, endured in a Kenyan jail

'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times

'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece' Sunday Herald

Kaum ein Schriftsteller hat in den letzten Jahren die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung in Afrika so beeinflußt wie dier Kenianer Ng g wa Thiang'o. Von den Machthabern seines Landes gefürchtet und von breiten Schichten seines Volkes verehrt und geachtet, wird alles, was er schreibt, in ganz Afrika mit großer Spannung erwartet, jedes seiner Werke erlebt ohne Ausnahme höchste Auflagen. Die vorliegenden Kurzgeschichten wurden in der Zeit von 1963 bis 1975 geschrieben und behandeln Themen wie den erfolgreichen Freiheitskampf Kenias (Mau-Mau-Aufstand), den Konflikt zwischen G k y -Tradition...