Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (b 1936) is a Kenyan novelist. He has anti-imperialist focus and writes of ordinary native people deprived of their land by white settlers. His writing stressed on fusion of old and new, traditional and Western with an object of pushing forward Africans politically while retaining their cultural tradition and identity.Wisdom & Quotes
- Christianity and Western civilisation - what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
- Despair is the one sin that cannot be forgiven.
- "Young man," he said, "go after property. But never show God your nakedness, and never despise the people. The voice of the people is the voice of God".
- You men, let me tell you a secret: God's kingdom has been brought closer by Mwaura's Matatu Matamu Model T Ford. Even the journey to the Devil's place is nothing in Mwaura's Matatu Matamu Model T Ford. Get in! Get in!
- A writer needs people around him. He needs live struggles of active life. Contrary to popular mythology, a novel is not a product of the imaginative feats of a single individual but the work of many hands and tongues. A writer just takes down notes dictated to him by life among the people. ... I love to hear the voices of the people working on the land, forging metal in a factory, telling anecdotes in crowded matatus and buses, gyrating their hips in a crowded bar before a jukebox of a live band. ... I need the vibrant voices of beautiful women: their touch, their sighs, their tears, their laughter. I like the presence of children prancing about , fighting, laughing, crying. I need life to write about life.
Abraham B Yehoushua