Name: Rw mbo rwa Nj k (in Kikuyu)
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Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9789966259653

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Publisher

East African Educational Publishers

Language

Kikuyu

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x0.3 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN13

9789966259653

Synopsis "Rw mbo rwa Nj k (in Kikuyu)"

Story...story... Story come... Story...story... Story come...  When did you last hear these words? When was the last time your grandmother or somebody else told you a story? How about you? When was the last time you narrated a story to somebody else? Do I hear silence? Okay then; let me tell you this modern story. The story of a boy called Kamariru, and a girl called Kamahua. Kamariru and Kamahua were in love. Not the kind of modern love we know, that is baseless. Their love sprang from their shared love for nature; they loved trees, flowers, animals, worms and all things beautiful in nature, more so the one in the land of Kimongo.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) was a Kenyan writer, academic, and cultural activist, whose work marked a before and after in postcolonial literature. His essay Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) remains a fundamental text in postcolonial studies, and his later novels and plays, written in Kikuyu, solidified his advocacy for African languages as a tool for cultural liberation.

Ngũgĩ died on May 28, 2025, in Buford (Georgia, USA), at the age of 87. Although he never won a literary award like the Nobel, he was a recurring candidate and received significant recognitions such as the PEN/Nabokov Award (2022) and the Premi Internacional Catalunya (2019). His passing stirred emotions worldwide: Kenyan President William Ruto described him as an “emblematic figure of African letters”.

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