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Ngugi wa Thiong'o Interview
Granta has a video interview with Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o. They did it in honor of the fact that they're excerpting his new memoir, Dreams in a Time of War , in their forthcoming "Work" issue. (Thiong'o's book, is included on my Books to Watch for in 2010 post.)
Memoirs aren't totally my thing, although I might make an exception for Thiong'o, since his most recent, epic novel, Wizard of the Crow , was one of my favorite reads of 2006. In fact, I wrote an essay on it in a long-ago issue of The Quarterly Conversation. John Updike's review/essay covering Wizard in The New Yorker is also pretty good, and it overviews Thiong'o's highly interesting personal story as a dissident in Kenya (which I'm guessing isn't covered in the memoir, since it's about his childhood).
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