Ng g wa Thiong'o

THE BIRTH OF A DREAM WEAVER; A Writer's Awakening

New York: The New Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. First US printing in hardcover of this memoir in which the author "recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born". [from the author's website] The Kenya-born Wa Thiong'o has long taught in the US, currently at Cal-Irvine; he is regularly listed as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in like dust jacket. Fine / fine. Item #15238

Price: $125.00