Other articles where I Will Marry When I Want is discussed: Ngugi wa Thiong’o: …in Kikuyu, Ngaahika Ndeenda (1977; I Will Marry When I Want), the performance of which led to his detention for a year without trial by the Kenyan government. (His book Det
In I Will Marry When I Want, metatheatre is utilised by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii to satirize the duplicitous sloganeering of Christian salvation by the Kenyan Christian elite, in its iniquitous attempt to pauperise and dehumanize the peasants. This pap...
I will marry when I wantThis article focuses on the entrenchment of Gikuyu's resources of orality in metatheatre by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii, to satirise the hypocrisy of the Janus-faced Kenyan Pentecostal Christian elite's desperation to hastily convert the peasants in the ...
Ikhide R. Ikheloa
Thiong’olessonsbrushesClassroom rules provide first lessons in censorship. Ngugi wa Thiong’o looks back on a childhood debate and recalls his early brushes with a repressive regimedoi:10.1177/0306422010390169Ngugi wa Thiong'oIndex on Censorship...
A Multi-Centred Globe - Translation as the Language of LanguagesTo claim that the subject is itself produced in and as a gendered matrix of relations is not to...Thiong'o, Ngugi ...
This paper entitled, Globalisation, stakes, and challenge: Discussing Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow discusses the stakes and challenges faced by postcolonial societies in the globalisation process. Gillian Young informs us that "Globalization...suggests a processual ...
Circumcision, an important custom of the Africans, is a bo ne of dissension between the settlers and the blacks. Ngugi's confrontation with the present is charged with a historic sense, and in many ways, he attempts to portray the complete displacement of the black psyche in the colonized...