• THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGES, reflections on translations

THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGES, reflections on translations

: wa Thiong'o (N.)

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100pp., hardback, d.w., Reprint, Seagull Books, Calcutta, (2023) 2025

ISBN: 9781803090719

 

A collection of Kenyan writer and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's essays and lectures about translation, written and delivered over the past two decades.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's (1938-2025) work includes the novels A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, Wizard of the Crow and The Perfect Nine: the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi; the plays The Black Hermit and The trial of Dedan Kimathi (with Micere Githae Mugo); In the House of the Interpreter, a memoir; and the non-fiction works Decolonising the Mind: the politics of language in African literature, Secure the Base: Making Africa visible in the globe and Homecoming, essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture and politics. In 2001, he received the prestigious Nonino International Prize for Literature.