Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.

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    • Abstract:
      Summary: "Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda: threshold years where he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist, just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born--under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War"--Front flap of jacket.
    • Content Notes:
      Prologue -- The wound in the heart -- A wounded land -- Reds and blacks -- Benzes, sneakers, frisbees, and flags -- Penpoints and fig trees -- Writing for the money of it -- Black dolls and black masks -- Transition and that letter from Paris -- Boxers and black hermits -- Pages, stages, spaces -- Coal, rubber, silver, gold, and new flags -- Working for the Nation -- Notes and notebooks -- A hell of a paradise.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references.
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    • Other Titles:
      Birth of a dreamweaver.
    • ISBN:
      9781620972403 :
    • Accession Number:
      2016018959
    • Accession Number:
      953823528
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.995617