By Emily Smith
Kenyan scholar and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o visited Macalester’s campus Wednesday afternoon. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine.Born in Kenya, Ngugi is one of the most noted scholars of the African continent. While teaching at the University of Nairobi in the 1970s, he renounced the English language and advocating teaching world
literature, not only literature in colonial languages.
The Kenyan government arrested Ngugi and kept him in prison without charging him from 1977-1978. When he was released, Ngugi fled Kenya and has since taught at several universities in England and the United States.
When he visited on Wednesday, Professor Ngugi ate with members of Afrika!, held a seminar for students in classes that have studied his writings and spoke in Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel.
Eric Clark • Sep 11, 2019 at 7:37 pm
These days of austerity in addition to relative anxiousness about taking on debt, most people balk about the idea of utilizing a credit card to make purchase of merchandise or perhaps pay for any gift giving occasion, preferring, instead just to rely on the tried along with trusted way of making settlement – raw cash. However, if you’ve got the cash on hand to make the purchase entirely, then, paradoxically, that’s the best time for them to use the credit card for several good reasons.
Virginia Sharp • Sep 8, 2019 at 11:28 pm
My spouse and I stumbled over here coming from a different page and thought I might check things out. I like what I see so now i am following you. Look forward to looking at your web page for a second time.