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Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

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A Paperback / softback by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdulrazak Gurnah

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 07/02/2002
    ISBN13: 9780141186993, 978-0141186993
    ISBN10: 0141186992
    Also in:
    Historical Fiction National liberation and independence

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    Book Synopsis
    Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

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