ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Birth of a Dream Weaver' charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngõugõi wa Thiongo recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda - threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles. James Nguigii, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also h...Read More