These notes are collected in celebration of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's birthday: January 5,1938
"Language as culture is a collective memory bank of a people's experience in history."
~Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A wonderful Speech of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o
... notes on other novels by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Petals of Blood Quotes: Out with foreign rule policed by colonized blackskins! Out with exploitation of our sweat! Spurs, stirrups, metal horseback, rider in a cloud of dust. The road was as treacherous as those hags and brats and cripples, he thought, riding through ruts and bumps and ditches. He became a daily feature in Ilmorog, a guardian knight of knowledge for part-time pupils. It was a solitary red beanflower in a field dominated by white,blue, and violet flowers. No matter how you looked at it, it gave you the impression of a flow of blood. To be made perfect, Munira started slowly, looking to the ground, absorbed in thoughts he did not know he had, speaking from a past he should have forgotten, crossing valleys and hills and ridges and plains of time to the beginning of his death, you must be able to scrub a dish to a shine brighter than the original, or as we would say in Siriana, out pray Jesus in prays of devotion. ... a lot of words is poison, a few words are
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