CANCELED TALK: Decolonizing the Mind:
The Politics of Language in African Literature in 2005
Ngûgî wa Thiong’o (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, January 28 / 1 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor

Ngûgî wa Thiong’o is regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers from the African continent. Among his writings are the novels Weep Not, Child; The River Between; A Grain of Wheat; and Petals of Blood, and plays such as The Black Hermit and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. Ngûgî’s politically charged writing led to his arrest in 1977, and he spent a year in detention without trial. In 1982 he went to London and could not return to Kenya due to threats of violence. He then took up residence in the United States. Last summer he returned to Kenya, after 22 years in exile. Ngûgî is currently the Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation and Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine.

Presented by the IHC’s Performance Studies and Translation Studies Research Focus Groups,
with additional support from the African Studies Research Focus Group. CANCELED

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