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91 relations: A Grain of Wheat, African Writers Conference, African Writers Series, AllAfrica.com, Alliance High School (Kenya), Amnesty International, Billy Kahora, Caribbean Philosophical Association, Charles Dickens, Chimurenga (magazine), Chinua Achebe, Colonialism, Comparative literature, Complete Review, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel arap Moi, Daniel Defoe, Decolonising the Mind, Devil on the Cross, Dramatiska Institutet, Embarcadero (San Francisco), Erich Maria Remarque, Frantz Fanon, George Eliot, George Lamming, George Padmore Institute, Henry Fielding, James Currey, Jane Austen, Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre, Kamirithu, Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kampala, Kenya, Kenya Colony, Kenya Land and Freedom Army, Kenyan literature, Kiambu, Kikuyu language, Kikuyu people, Kirkus Reviews, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, Limuru, London Borough of Islington, Los Angeles Times, Lotus Prize for Literature, Makerere University, Man Booker International Prize, Margaret Busby, Marxism, ..., Mau Mau Uprising, Maya Jaggi, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Micere Githae Mugo, National Book Critics Circle Award, New York University, Ngaahika Ndeenda, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nonino, P.M. News, Park Kyong-ni Prize, PDF, Performance studies, Petals of Blood, Prisoner of conscience, Publishers Weekly, Random House, San Francisco, Stockholm, Swahili language, The Black Hermit, The Guardian, The Herald (Zimbabwe), The Independent, The New York Times, The River Between, Theatre, Tobias Smollett, Uganda, University of Auckland, University of Bayreuth, University of California, Irvine, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Leeds, University of Nairobi, Wangui wa Goro, Weep Not, Child, Wizard of the Crow, World literature, Yale University, 21st century in literature. Expand index (41 more) »
A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o first published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.
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African Writers Conference
On 1 June 1962, Makerere University.
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African Writers Series
African Writers Series (AWS) is a series of books by African writers that has been published by Heinemann since 1962.
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AllAfrica.com
AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.
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Alliance High School (Kenya)
The Alliance High School (or AHS) popularly known as "Bush", was one of the first schools in Kenya to offer secondary school education to Africans.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
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Billy Kahora
Billy Kahora is a Kenyan writer and editor based in Nairobi.
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Caribbean Philosophical Association
The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) is a philosophical organization founded in 2002 at the Center for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies, in Mona, Jamaica.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Chimurenga (magazine)
Chimurenga is a publication of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.
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Colonialism
Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.
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Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries.
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Complete Review
Complete Review (stylized complete review) is a literary website founded in March 1999.
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D. H. Lawrence
Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.
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Daniel arap Moi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (born 2 September 1924) is a former Kenyan politician who served as the second President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
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Decolonising the Mind
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
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Devil on the Cross
Devil on the Cross is 1980 Gikuyu language novel (orig. title Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ) by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1982.
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Dramatiska Institutet
Dramatiska Institutet (DI) or University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre was a Swedish university college in Stockholm that provided education programs about activities surrounding film, radio, television, and theater.
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Embarcadero (San Francisco)
The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay.
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Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist who created many works about the horrors of war.
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Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.
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George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
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George Lamming
George Lamming (born 8 June 1927) is a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet and an important figure in Caribbean literature, who first won critical acclaim with his debut novel, In the Castle of My Skin (1953).
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George Padmore Institute
The George Padmore Institute (GPI), founded in 1991 in Stroud Green Road, North London, by John La Rose (1927–2006) and a group of political and cultural activists connected to New Beacon Books,, LKJ Records, 17 December 2008.
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.
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James Currey
James Currey is an academic publisher specialising on Africa.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre
The Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre, in Kamiriithu, Kenya was a historic and significant program in which Ngugi Wa Thiong'o was quite involved.
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Kamirithu
Kamirithu is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province.
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Kamiti Maximum Security Prison
Kamiti Maximum Security Prison is a prison in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.
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Kenya Colony
The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until 1963.
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Kenya Land and Freedom Army
The Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) was a guerrilla army, formed mainly by the people of central and eastern Kenya, which resisted British rule from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
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Kenyan literature
Kenyan literature describes literature which comes from Kenya.
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Kiambu
Kiambu is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya within the Nairobi Metropolitan Region.
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Kikuyu language
Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) is a language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya.
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Kikuyu people
The Kikuyu (also Akikûyu/Agikuyu/Gikuyu) is the largest ethnic group in Kenya.
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Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews (or Kirkus Media) is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980).
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Leeds African Studies Bulletin
The Leeds African Studies Bulletin is an annual journal that has been published by Leeds University Centre for African Studies since 1964.
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Limuru
Limuru is a town in central Kenya.
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London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Islington is a London borough in Inner London, England.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Lotus Prize for Literature
The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) was a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (also known as Association of Asian and African Writers).
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Makerere University
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Man Booker International Prize
The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.
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Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby OBE, Hon.
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Marxism
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.
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Mau Mau Uprising
The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1964), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–63).
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Maya Jaggi
Maya Jaggi is a writer, literary critic and editor who, as one of Britain's most respected cultural journalists, is "an influential voice on world literature".
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Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author.
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Micere Githae Mugo
Micere Githae Mugo (born Madeleine Micere Githae in 1942) is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya.
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National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Ngaahika Ndeenda
Ngaahika Ndeenda, a play translated later into English as I Will Marry When I Want, was written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first performed in Kenya in 1977 in the playwright's home village of Kamiriithu.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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Nonino
Nonino is a small Italian company that is a producer of grappa.
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P.M. News
P.M. News is a daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria by the Independent Communications Network Limited (ICNL).
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Park Kyong-ni Prize
Park Kyong-ni Prize (Korean: 박경리 문학상) is an international literary award based in South Korea.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Performance studies
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary field that studies performance and uses performance as a lens to study the world.
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Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first published in 1977.
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Prisoner of conscience
Prisoner of conscience (POC) is a term coined by Peter Benenson in a 28 May 1961 article ("The Forgotten Prisoners") for the London Observer newspaper.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
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The Black Hermit
The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Herald (Zimbabwe)
The Herald is a state-owned daily newspaper published in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The River Between
The River Between is a 1965 novel by prolific Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o that was published as part of the influential African Writers Series.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Tobias Smollett
Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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University of Auckland
The University of Auckland (Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the largest university in New Zealand, located in the country's largest city, Auckland.
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University of Bayreuth
The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany.
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University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, Orange County, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.
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University of Dar es Salaam
The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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University of Nairobi
The University of Nairobi (UoN) is a collegiate research university based in Nairobi.
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Wangui wa Goro
Wangui Wa Goro (born 1961) is a Kenyan academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer based in the UK.
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Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child is Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first novel, published in 1964 under the name James Ngugi.
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Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow (Gikuyu: Mũrogi wa Kagogo) is a 2006 novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and translated from the original Kikuyu into English by the author, his first novel in more than 20 years.
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World literature
World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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21st century in literature
The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngũgĩ_wa_Thiong'o
