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DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing his new book\n\nBirth of a Dream Weaver: A 
 Writer's Awakening\n\nfrom The New Press\n\nBirth of a Dream Weaver charts 
 the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful 
 memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent 
 at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold 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.\n\nHaunted 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.\n\nWhat 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.\n\nOne of the leading African writers and scholars at 
 work today, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. He is 
 the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Birth 
 of a Dream Weaver (The New Press). He is currently distinguished professor 
 in the School of Humanities and the director of the International Center 
 for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. He has 
 been nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.\n\nCritical praise 
 for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o:\n\n"In his crowded career and his eventful life, 
 Ngũgĩ has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries 
 of a contemporary African writer, caught in sometimes implacable political, 
 social, racial, and linguistic currents." —John Updike, The New 
 Yorker\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790907.php
SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore, \n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790907.php
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