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Events: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, September 12 at 7 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
50 Prince Street
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be reading and singing books along with South African author Breyten Breytenbach
Wednesday, September 13 at 7 pm
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, at 12th Street
Writing in Exile
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Ngugi wa Thiong'o was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977 for his novel Petals of Blood. Now, the exiled writer is one of Africa’s leading scholars. He shares his latest work, Wizard of the Crow, which is set in an imaginary African nation.
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Events: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, September 12 at 7 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
50 Prince Street
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be reading and singing books along with South African author Breyten Breytenbach
Wednesday, September 13 at 7 pm
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, at 12th Street
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