Secret Lives & Other Stories

A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Guardian

One of Kenya's greatest storytellers

Financial Times

A visionary writer

Daily Telegraph

In his crowded career and eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer, caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial and linguistic currents

John Updike, New Yorker

A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Guardian

One of Kenya's greatest storytellers

Financial Times

A visionary writer

Daily Telegraph

In his crowded career and eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer, caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial and linguistic currents

John Updike, New Yorker