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Weep Not, Child Lesson Plan

About the Author

Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born James Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya in 1938. One of the foremost living African novelists, he has also developed a reputation as a post-colonial theorist, and has taught at universities around the world, currently holding a post as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine.

As a student at Makerere University in Uganda, he published his first short stories. After graduating, he pursued a second bachelor’s degree at Leeds University in England. He eventually became a professor of English, and has taught around the world. As an adult, he dropped his Western first name and adopted his current Bantu name...

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