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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Giant of African Writing

At the age of 24, Ngũgĩ burst onto the East Africa literary scene with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962, as part of the celebration of Uganda’s Independence .   Ngugi wa Thiong'o and pet dog at his home in Irvine, California, U.S.A, besides a juxtaposed Matigari book mock-up.