BOOKS BY Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer’s Awakening, 2016
• Secure the Base, 2016
• In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire, 2013
• In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, 2012
• Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing, 2012
• Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir, 2010
• Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, 2009
• Wizard of the Crow, 2006
• Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow), 2004
• Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa, 1998
• Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, 1993
• Njamba Nene’s Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene),  1990 (children’s book)
• Matigari (English translation), 1989
• Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (Njamba Nene na Chibu King’ang’i), 1988 (children’s book)
• Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986
• Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu), 1986 (children’s book)
• Writing against Neo-Colonialism, 1986
• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986
• Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, 1983
• Devil on the Cross (English translation), 1982
• Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary, 1981
• Education for a National Culture, 1981
• Writers in Politics: Essays, 1981
• Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross), 1980
• Petals of Blood, 1977
• I Will Marry When I Want (Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano), 1977 (play; with Ngugi wa Mirii)
• The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, 1976, (play; with Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)
• Secret Lives, and Other Stories, 1976
• A Meeting in the Dark, 1974
• Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, 1972
• This Time Tomorrow (three plays), c. 1970
• The Black Hermit, 1968
• A Grain of Wheat, 1967
• The River Between, 1965
• Weep Not, Child, 1964

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