Lexington Books
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978-1-66692-882-2 • Hardback • October 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66692-883-9 • eBook • October 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Brian Sibanda is senior lecturer of humanities in the Department of English at University of Johannesburg.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Decolonial Philosophy of Liberation
Chapter One: The Philosophical and Political Formation of Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Chapter Two: Beyond Marxism, Nationalism and Post-colonialism
Chapter Three: Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Artistic as the Philosophical
Chapter Four: The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Language
Conclusion: The Decolonial Ngugi wa Thiong’o
References
About the Author
Brian Sibanda has done justice to wa Thiong’o, one of the most important thinkers and writers of our time, whose immense intellectual richness often escapes those who write about him. Sibanda has confronted this predicament and has brilliantly succeeded in bringing out the complex texture of wa Thiong’o as a liberation philosopher. Sibanda’s book is, in its own right, a path-breaking contribution to decolonial studies.
— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a fresh reading of Ngugi wa Thiong’o complete œuvre, a reading that takes him seriously not only as a storyteller, but also as a philosopher and thinker. The most enduring contribution of the Kenyan writer is his conceptual fertilization of African literature, particularly his ongoing theorizing of decoloniality. This proposition is worth telling again, and this book does just that. wa Thiong’o novels become an engagement with critical theories, and his theories a framing of the world in which we live today, providing an understanding of the African contemporary predicament, from the vantage point of our necessary liberation. The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Ngugi wa Thiong’o is an essential re-introduction of classic African thought and imagination to a new generation of students, scholars and interested readers. A must on any bookshelf.
— Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University
A trail-blazing treatise of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s decolonial politics and philosophy of liberation. This book is a brilliant analysis of the work of a leading African intellectual.
— Morgan Ndlovu, University of Johannesburg