Thiong'o wa Ngũgĩ

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkb:writer
essayist
novelist
playwright
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Makerere_University
gptkb:University_of_Leeds
gptkbp:arrested political activism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nonino_International_Prize_for_Literature
Nobel Prize nominee
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:James_Thiong'o_Ngugi
gptkbp:children gptkb:Mũkoma_wa_Ngũgĩ
gptkbp:dateOfBirth 1948
gptkbp:employer gptkb:New_York_University
gptkb:University_of_California,_Irvine
gptkb:Yale_University
gptkbp:exiledTo gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:genre drama
essay
fiction
gptkbp:hasWrittenFor gptkb:Gikuyu
English
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Thiong'o wa Ngũgĩ
gptkbp:imprisonedAt gptkb:Kamiti_Maximum_Security_Prison
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Mũkoma_wa_Ngũgĩ
African writers
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Karl_Marx
gptkb:Chinua_Achebe
gptkb:Frantz_Fanon
gptkbp:language gptkb:Gikuyu
English
gptkbp:movement postcolonial literature
African literature
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Kenyan
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:A_Grain_of_Wheat
gptkb:Decolonising_the_Mind
gptkb:Devil_on_the_Cross
gptkb:Petals_of_Blood
gptkb:The_River_Between
gptkb:Weep_Not,_Child
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:professor
gptkbp:otherName gptkb:Ngugi_wa_Thiong'o
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Kamiriithu,_Kenya
gptkbp:residence gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Njeri_wa_Ngũgĩ
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Detention:_A_Writer's_Prison_Diary
gptkb:Moving_the_Centre
gptkb:Something_Torn_and_New
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ngũgĩ_wa_Thiong'o
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5