Ngugi Wa Thiong o Libros

Exiliado de su Kenia natal desde hace más de veinticinco años, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, uno de los escritores africanos más importantes de la actualidad, sitúa esta historia en la imaginaria República Libre de Aburiria. El soberano, dictador inamovible, semidiós y genial estadista, ejerce su poder a capricho sobre todo un país y se regocija en la contemplación de las encarnizadas luchas entre súbditos y ministros para gozar de su favor. El pueblo, sometido a la injusticia y el terror, deberá recurrir a la subversión para tratar de derrocar desde abajo el régimen del tirano. Cualquier arma es útil. Incluso la magia. Corrosiva, humorística y terrible, esta tragicomedia se vale de la rica tradición cuentística africana para analizar con agudeza la dramática realidad poscolonial del continente. El brujo del cuervo moldea las historias de los poderosos y de la gente corriente en un mosaico deslumbrante y confirma el alcance de la sorprendente obra de Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Durante más de sesenta años, Ngugi wa Thiong'o ha alzado la voz para denunciar la situación del continente africano, para dar a conocer al mundo sus principales retos y reclamar una alternativa a un neocolonialismo injusto, violento y sobrecogedor. Su sueño es alcanzar la completa libertad, así como disfrutar de una igualdad real entre países. A lo largo de estas páginas, sobrevuelan cuestiones de gran trascendencia, como el papel de los intelectuales africanos, el lugar de Asia en África, las dificultades políticas del continente ante la virulencia del capitalismo, el legado de la esclavitud o las expectativas para alcanzar la paz.

Die Bedeutung afrikanischer Sprachen für die kulturelle Entkolonisierung

Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and genderBetween nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality.Kenya: EAEP

In exile for more than twenty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in WIZARD OF THE CROW is, in his own words, nothing less than 'to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of 2,000 years of world history.'Commencing in 'our times' and set in the 'Free Republic of Aburiria', the novel dramatises with corrosive humour and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Ngugi reveals humanity in all its ceaselessly surprising complexity.Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, WIZARD OF THE CROW is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's career thus far.

Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration camp. But Ngũgĩ could not escape history, and eventually found himself jailed after a run in with the forces of colonialism. Ngũgĩ richly and poignantly evokes the experiences that would transform him into a world-class writer and, as a political dissident, a moral compass to us all. A winning celebration of the implacable determination of youth and the power of hope, here is a searing account of the history of a man—and the story of a nation.

A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o Guardian

One of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence.