Review of Ngugi wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer

Ngugi wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer. Eds. Reinhard Sander and Bernth Lindfors, James Currey Publishers, Oxford: 2006, pp. 445, ISBN 0 85255 580 6, £19.95 (pb).

A comprehensive collection of 43 interviews with Ngugi, from 1964 to 2003, with extensive supporting bibliographical apparatus. An essential source book and reference for this major African – and international – writer.

[Published in Leeds African Studies Bulletin 69 (2007), p. 94]