Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English Literature at the University of California-Irvine, internationally acclaimed author, and a leading light in African letters today. His literary-philosophical works such as Decolonising the Mind, Moving the Centre: Struggle For Cultural Freedoms, and Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams have shaped contemporary global thought, and his many acclaimed novels and plays include The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, Matigari Ma Njiruungi (Gikuyu), and Wizard of the Crow.

Archiving African Imaginaries

A screening of “Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The River between Indigenous and Colonial Languages,” by prize-winning documentarian Ndirangu Wachanga, followed by conversation between Ndirangu Wachanga and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, moderated by Prof. Annette Damayanti Lienau. Sponsered in part by the Five College Consortium.