ng ion th Wa thief’o- Giant of African Literature

NG ive WA Thiong’o died at the age of 87,,, It was a storyteller who was not tied to the Titan -prison, asylum and disease of modern African literature.

His work has been around for about 60 years, mainly from colonies to democracy.

NGIPPEDG T won the Nobel Prize for a lot of literature, and fans were disappointed every time the medal slipped through the fingers.

He will be remembered not only as a Nobel writer, but also as a fierce supporter of literature written in African Aboriginal languages.

NG Jamesg Born was born in 1938 as Nornah in James Tion in 1938 when Kenya was under British colonial rule. He grew up in Rimuru Village among low -income agricultural workers.

His parents saved and saved to pay tuition at Alliance, a boarding school run by British missionaries.

In an interview, NG NGĩ recalled that he returned home from the allies at the end of the semester and found that his entire village was intense by the colonial authorities.

His family was one of hundreds of people and thousands of people to live in the detention camp during the crackdown of MAU MAU, an independent fighter movement.

MAU MAU UPRISING, which lasted from 1952 to 1960, impressed NGũgĩ’s life in numerous destructive ways.

Gitogo, the brother of ngũgĩ, one of the most crushed people, was hit by a deadly gun on the back that refused to comply with the command of a British soldier.

Gitogo was a deaf because I couldn’t hear the order.

In 1959, when Britain struggled to maintain a grip for Kenya, NGũgĩ left to study in Uganda. He has registered in Makerere University, one of Africa’s most famous universities.

At the Artist Conference in Makerere, NGũgĩ shared the manuscript of his debut novel with REVERED NIGERIAN writer China ACHEBE.

ACHEBE delivered the manuscript to the British publisher, and in 1964, the book, Weep Not, Child, was published as a critical praise. It was the first major English novel written by Dong Africa.

NGLYGIFT quickly tracked the rivers between two popular novels, wheat lumps and rivers. In 1972, the British Times newspaper said NGũgĩ, a 33 -year -old NGũgĩ, was “one of African outstanding contemporary artists.”

Then 1977 came. First of all, this year he became NG ũ Wa thief and shed his birth name James. NG Changeg The changed because it wanted a name that was not affected by the colony.

He also declined English in his main language of literature and sweared to write only in his native kikuyu.

In 1977 he published his last English novel, Petals of Blood.

The previous book of NG Booksg Previus was critical of the colonial state, but the bloody petals were described as an elite class that betrayed the ordinary Kenyan by attacking new leaders in independence Kenya.

Ng there did not stop there. In the same year, he jointly wrote NGAAHIKA NDEENDA, who examines Kenya’s class struggle.

At that time, the operation of the theater was closed by the government of President Jomo Kenyatta, and NGũgĩ was trapped in the most security prison for one year without trial.

But when Ngũgĩ wrote his first Kikuyu novel Devil on the Cross, it was 12 months. He couldn’t access a laptop, so he used toilet paper to write the whole book.

Ng after was released after Daniel Arap Moi replaced Kenyatta with president.

NG FOURG That said four years later, when he returned to Kenya to release a book in London, he found that there was a conspiracy to kill him.

NGIMG SELF- has begun to be exile in the United Kingdom and the United States. He did not return to Kenya for 22 years.

When he finally came back, he was welcomed by the hero. Thousands of Kenyan people welcomed him.

But when the perpetrators invaded Ngũgĩ’s apartments, attacked the author brutally and raped his wife, the return was damaged.

NGEDGIST claimed that assault was “political.”

He returned to the United States and was a professor at universities, including Yale, New York and Irvine, California.

Beyond academia and beyond, ngũgĩ is known as one of the most important literary advocates written in African language.

His career and today African literature has been dominated by most countries on English or French.

“What is the difference between a politician who says that Africa can’t do without imperialism and Africa can’t do it without European language?” NG AG I asked in a fiery essay collection of justice.

In one section, NG NGĩ called Chinua Achebe, which helped start career to write in English. As a result, their friendship was noisy.

Ngũgĩ married and divorced twice. He had nine children and four of them were published.

“My family has become one of my literary competitors.” Ngũgĩ joked in the 2020 La Times interview.

His son, Mukoma Wa Ngũgĩ, insisted that his mother was physically abused by NG ũgĩ Wa thief.

His son wrote in social media posts.

Later, in his life, NG LIFEGĩ’s health was deteriorated. He received a triple heart bypass in 2019 and began to struggle with renal failure. In 1995 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and lived for three months.

But NG and GEDs have recovered and added cancer to the list of long difficulties he overcome.

But now, one of the guidance lights of African literature that Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once called him was disappeared by him and the world of words became a bit darker.