Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which sThese latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original. He makes us look again at their novels to address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeoveNgugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. 

By Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Society, Politics & Philosophy, Published by James Currey/Heinemann