Description: Birth of a Dream Weaver : A Memoir of a Writer’s Awakening, Paperback by Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi, ISBN 1620976307, ISBN-13 9781620976302, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US From one of the worlds greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda as a student
In this acclaimed memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—crucial years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born—under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War.
Haunted by the memories of the carnage and mass incarceration carried out by the British colonial-settler state in his native Kenya but inspired by the titanic struggle against it, Ngũgĩ, then known as James Ngugi, begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present.
What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is simultaneously the birth of one of the most important living writers—lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)—the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history, and the emergence of new histories and nations with uncertain futures.
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Book Title: Birth of a Dream Weaver : a Writer's Awakening
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Personal Memoirs, World / African, Africa / East
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: NgũGĩ Wa Thiong'o
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
