Ngugi wa Thiong'o

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages;…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday, the Bible in translation is being read to…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“A year as an inmate in Kamĩtĩ has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans.…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o