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Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Ugandaâ??threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being bornâ??under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War. Haunted by the memories of the carnage and mass incarceration carried out by the British colonial-settler state in his native Kenya but inspired by the titanic struggle against it, NgÅ©gÄ©, then known as James Ngugi, begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present. What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is simultaneously the birth of one of the most important living writersâ??lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)â??the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history, and the emergence of new histories and nati Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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