Text and CD of lecture “Resisting Metaphysical Empires; Language as a war zone “given in October 2013 in Senate House , University of London. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a major Kenyan and African writer and radical political activist. He is a novelist, playwright, essayist, translator, literary, social and political critic. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.