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`one of Kenya's greatest storytellers' --Financial Times
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A powerful memoir of an extraordinary Kenyan childhood by an international literary giant
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Being a Kenyan but born after independence there is a lot in here which offers me a view into a world I have not been privy too but my parents have been exposed to. I am glad he mentions the struggle started in India for the fight for freedom and the support he felt the Asian community in Kenya have offered. However, this is on his Gikuyu surrounding which is the author's cultural background. I would recommend this read to someone who wants to understand pre-colonial era in Kenya. This book kept me gripped to the very end.
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Format:Hardcover
Bought this book after reading the author's 'Wizard of the Crow', which is a brilliant book. Obviously a work of fiction and an account of Wa Thiong'o's childhood are bound to be very different kind of books; whereas Wizard of the Crow brilliantly criticizes an African dictatorship with humour and a great literary style full of twists and imagination, this autobiographical account seems like a very honest account of a boy growing up with a hunger for education and nicely ties in the historical events taking place, not only in Kenya and surrounding African countries towards the end of colonialism, but also with the distant events happening in the rest of the world and fits them in together with other key events in the author's upbringing.
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Format:Paperback
I am a fan of Ngugi Wa Thiongo and this book didn't disappoint me! It is always interesting to know the life of a writer and see how it influenced the books he wrote. Great life, great writing style and a wonderful way to learn more about the history of Kenya through the eye of a child
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