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In 1992, he was a guest at the Congress of South African Writers and spent time in Zwide Township with Mzi Mahola, the year he became a professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University, where he held the Erich Maria Remarque Chair.
Ngugi received bachelor’s degrees from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in 1963 and from Leeds University, Yorkshire, England, in 1964. After doing graduate work at Leeds, he served as a lecturer in English at University College, Nairobi, Kenya, and as a visiting professor of English at Northwestern University, Evanston
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Aug 10, 2023 · Ngugi became a visiting Associate Professor at N orthwestern University, in the United State of America. He continu ed writing his fourth novel Petals of Blood which he had begun at
Jun 22, 2020 · Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family.
Oct 13, 2016 · Kenya’s most celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong'o marked his 84 birthday on January 5. Having published his first novel – Weep Not Child – in 1964, Ngugi remains active in writing and teaching.
Ngugi went to London for a self-imposed exile and later traveled to the Sweden and then the United States, where he has served at several universities as a professor.
Nov 16, 2016 · In 2013, Ngugi said that such writers — including his son Mukoma, a professor at Cornell University, and one of four published authors among his nine children — are part of a “metaphysical ...
