![]() ![]() Ngũgĩ has pointed out that processes of colonialism by European powers occurred in many places, including in Ireland. Upon his release he fled Kenya under threat, and spent 2 decades in exile. Ngũgĩ, a University Professor of Literature, was put in a maximum security prison. The play, Ngaahika Ndeenda ( I Will Marry When I Want), was halted by the Government. ![]() In the 1970s he was jailed by the post-colonial Kenyan government for co-writing a play in an African language which suggested critical ideas that he had already expressed elsewhere in English. He is a strong advocate for local African languages and has written novels and plays in Gĩkũyũ, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya – a country of over sixty languages. He is a prominent academic, post-colonial theorist, and writer from Kenya. ![]() 1938) is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. ![]()
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