Book In Common Author Visits Sage Hill on September 25
Book In Common Author Visits Sage Hill on September 25
The entire Sage Hill School community is invited to hear this year’s Book in Common author Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o discuss his work during the Friday, September 25 assembly, which starts at 10:50 AM. His book, Dreams in a Time of War – A Childhood Memoir, was required reading for every history student from Patterns of Civilization to senior electives.
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A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Ngũgĩ is a prolific writer of novels, plays and essays, many exploring the harsh sociopolitical conditions of his homeland in Kenya. Sage Hill students read his memoir about growing up in Kenya leading up to the independence movement during the 1950s and 1960s.
His accolades include the UC Irvine Medal – the highest honor conferred by the university, and being shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has taught at Yale University, New York University, and Amherst College among others.
Learn more about Ngũgĩ by clicking here for his full biography.
Learn more about Ngũgĩ by clicking here for his full biography.
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