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.

THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGES, reflections on translations

: wa Thiong'o (N.)

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