_ngugi-wa-thiong39o-reading-from-39dreams-in-a-time-of-war39.jpg "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Reading from 'Dreams in a Time of War' from mau mau war in kenya Video Screenshot Preview")
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✓ Published: 28-May-2018
✓ Published: 28-May-2018
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Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – a recurring candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature – here reads a passage from his praised, eye-opening childhood memoir ‘Dreams in a Time of War’, in which he describes the magical moment when he learned to read and “discovered the secret of stories in the daytime.” nnBorn in 1938 in rural Kenya, Wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. His
Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – a recurring candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature – here reads a passage from his praised, eye-opening childhood memoir ‘Dreams in a Time of War’, in which he describes the magical moment when he learned to read and “discovered the secret of stories in the daytime.” nnBorn in 1938 in rural Kenya, Wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. His
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