Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance

"One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language-and African culture itself

Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
Published: 02/24/2009
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780465009466
ISBN10: 0465009468
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | African
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)

About the Author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya in 1938. After penning Petals of Blood in 1977, a novel sharply critical of life in neo-colonial Kenya, he was arrested and imprisoned without charge for a year. Vanity Fair has called him the scourge of African dictators and warlords and the San Diego Union-Tribune praised him as a writer whose output feels essential for those hoping to understand contemporary Africa. He lives in Irvine, California.