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According to Wikipedia, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English. He has been described as having been "considered East Africa's leading novelist". His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, is translated into 100 languages from around the world.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Published Works

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Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (1993) (533)
Petals of Blood (1977) (163)
The River Between (1965) (155)
Devil on the Cross (1980) (154)
A Grain of Wheat (1967) (146)
Writers in Politics: (1981) (124)
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (1998) (119)
Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981) (114)
Decolonising the mind (2020) (112)
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012) (100)
Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space (1997) (85)
Weep Not, Child (1964) (85)
Homecoming: essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture and politics (1972) (82)
Wizard of the Crow (2006) (80)
Writers in politics : a re-engagement with issues of literature & society (1997) (76)
Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983) (75)
Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009) (64)
TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI (2017) (45)
Re-membering Africa (2009) (42)
I will marry when I want (1982) (41)
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (2010) (37)
Notes towards a Performance Theory of Orature (2007) (34)
Writers in politics : essays (1981) (29)
Language in Everything to Declare (2010) (21)
Writing Against Neocolonialism (1986) (19)
The Myth of Tribe in African Politics (2009) (18)
African Identities: Pan-Africanism in the Era of Globalization and Capitalist Fundamentalism (2004) (17)
The Black Hermit (1968) (16)
Education for a national culture (1981) (15)
Tongue and pen: a challenge to philosophers from Africa (2013) (13)
Women in cultural work: the fate of Kamiriithu People's theatre in Kenya (1982) (13)
The Making of a Rebel (1980) (13)
The politics of translation: notes towards an African language policy† (2017) (12)
This time tomorrow (1970) (12)
Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures: (1991) (12)
Translated by the author: My life in between languages (2009) (12)
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2001) (11)
Europhonism, universities, and the magic fountain: the future of African literature and scholarship (2000) (10)
Towards a National Culture (1971) (10)
Recovering the Original (2004) (9)
For Peace, Justice, and Culture: The Intellectual in the Twenty-First Century (2006) (9)
Europhone or African memory (2004) (9)
Secret lives and other stories (1992) (9)
Short story: Matigari as myth and history: An interview (1989) (8)
Njamba Nene and the flying bus (1986) (8)
Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing (2009) (8)
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (2013) (6)
Njamba Nene's pistol (1986) (6)
The commitment of the intellectual (1985) (5)
The tension between national and imperialist culture (1984) (5)
A Globalectical Imagination (2022) (4)
What Is Asia to Me? Looking East from Africa (2022) (4)
Nuruddin Farah: A Statement of Nomination to the 1998 Neustadt Jury (1998) (4)
The politics of translation: notes towards an African language policy† (2018) (3)
Freeing the Imagination: George Lamming’s aesthetics of decolonization (2009) (3)
License to Write: Encounters with Censorship (2003) (3)
Freeing the Imagination (2009) (3)
The Writer in a Neocolonial State (1986) (2)
Kamau Brathwaite: The Voice of African Presence (1994) (2)
Interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2017) (2)
Asia in My Life (2018) (2)
On David Cook (2004) (2)
No Licence for Musical (1983) (2)
Wizard of the crow : a translation from Gĩkũyũ by the author (2006) (2)
How Ali Mazrui, the Global Kenyan, Charted My Path (2016) (1)
Abdilatif Abdalla and the Voice of Prophecy (2016) (1)
Free thoughts on toilet paper (1981) (1)
Detained in Kenya (1978) (1)
To Stir the Heart (2007) (1)
A licence to write (2010) (1)
Preface to the Revised Edition 1997 (1997) (1)
A Multi-Centred Globe - Translation as the Language of Languages (2012) (1)
1. The Challenge – Ndaraca ya Thiomi: Languages as Bridges (2012) (1)
Home from exile : George Lamming and the colonial situation (1970) (1)
Learning from slavery-The legacy of the slave trade on modern society (2012) (1)
My Encounters With Chinua Achebe (2013) (1)
A Critical Comparative Reading of Nationalism in Pramoedya (2016) (1)
Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures (1991) (1)
A licence to write (2010) (1)
Writers in Politics (1997) (1)
A Riddle of Love (2018) (0)
Translation(s): Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Presents (2013) (0)
Listening to Ourselves (2013) (0)
When truth is hunted: The award-winning Kenyan author on having his work hunted and why the hunters will never win (2018) (0)
Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale / The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (2014) (0)
Nyambura and the Multi-Coloured Bird (2022) (0)
Mazrui and Achebe (2013) (0)
Buono Sera: How Many Eggs Have You Got Today? (2009) (0)
Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Reading and Conversation--Conversation between Al and Ngũgĩ (2013) (0)
Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Reading and Conversation--Conversation between Al and Ngũgĩ (2013) (0)
In the Name of the Mother (2013) (0)
Intellectuals, European & African Languages: Between Enslavement & Empowerment (2018) (0)
The Writers' Forum: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1993) (0)
The Quest for Relevance (1986) (2021) (0)
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACHEBE AND NGUGI’S SELECTED NOVELS (2016) (0)
All Stories belong to Tomorrow (1981) (0)
Usilie mpenzi wangu (1971) (0)
African Literature . . . Says Who?: The last fifty years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (2016) (0)
Mau Mau is Coming Back: The Revolutionary Significance of 20 October 1952 in Kenya Today (1983) (0)
Matigari: An extract from a forthcoming novel (1988) (0)
A conversation about two photos in Dreams in a Time of War : one of the mother, one of the railway station in Limura (2010) (0)
Ndaĩ ya Wendo (A Riddle of Love) (2018) (0)
A Globalectic Heterotopia: Writing a Novel from a Liminal Space (2016) (0)
5th Annual Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and Ida B. Wells Memorial Lecture (2015) (0)
The politics of translation (2020) (0)
The Politics of National Theatre: The Example of Kenya (2018) (0)
Translated by the author: My life in between languages (2009) (0)
Encounters with censorship (2021) (0)
Where Do We Go from Here? Four essays that reflect on how to challenge colonial power relations in culture, media and society: The Horseman of the Sixties (2018) (0)
The Politics of National Theatre: The Example of Kenya (2018) (0)
Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus (2014) (0)
Hunted Scholarship (2020) (0)
Liberate the Base: Thoughts Toward an African Language Policy (2018) (0)

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