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This is the official web site of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. Ngugi speaks
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Announcing the publication of Wizard of the Crow, a sweeping satire laced with magical realism, is described by Ngugi as a “global epic from Africa.” The author’s English translation of the novel has been released by Pantheon in August 2006.

~2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlist
~LitBog Co-op February 2007
~Review Salon.com, 11/14/06
~Podcast - Bumbershoot 9/3/06
~Podcast - Edinburgh 8/14/06
~Press Release
~Pantheon Books
~Amazon.com
~Reviews