Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

<p>Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle.<br><br>Patrick William's lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi's writing including his most rcent collection of essays. Focusing on important aspects of Ngugi's work which critics have hitherto ignored and drawing on a wide range of relevant theoretical perspectives this study examines the growing complexity of Ngugi's accounts of the history of colonised and post-colonial Kenya. The cultural and anti-imperial politics on Ngugi's experimentation with language and form in both novel and drama is discussed including the important role of culture as a source of historical memory and strategies of resistance for oppressed groups.<br><br>All the novels and the major plays are studies in detail and in addition a substantial chapter examines Ngugi's contribution in the area of non-fiction.</p>