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ISBN : 9780099548522
"Ngugi wa Thiong`o was born the fifth child of his father`s third wife, in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother`s eye, before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya at this time begin to impinge on the boy`s life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through telling the story of his grandparents and parents, and of his brothers` involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war."
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