USA Africa Dialogue Series - Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (The Africa List) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author)

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Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (The Africa List) 

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author)

For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fe

arlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality. With both hope and disappointment, he questions the role of language in both the organization of power structures and the pursuit of autonomy and self-expression.

Ngugi's fiction has reached wide acclaim, but his nonfictional work, while equally brilliant, is difficult to find. Secure the Base changes this by bringing together for the first time essays spanning nearly three decades. Originating as disparate lectures and texts, this complete volume will remind readers anew of Ngugi's power and importance. Written in a personal and accessible style, the book covers a range of issues, including the role of the intellectual, the place of Asia in Africa, labor and political struggles in an era of rampant capitalism, and the legacies of slavery and prospects for peace. At a time when Africa looms large in our discussions of globalization, Secure the Base is mandatory reading.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Secure the Base is full of hidden connections. Born in 1938, Ngugi is one of Africa's most venerable literary figures. In this short, tightly argued collection of lectures and essays, he writes with the aim of 'making Africa visible in the world' by tracing the lattice of political and moral ties that stretch across the globe and back to Africa."

(Independent)

About the Author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books, including,The River Between, Petals of Blood, Wizard of the Crow, and Decolonizing the Mind.

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