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During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground and the entire village moved up the road closer to a guard checkpoint. Later, his brother, Good Wallace, who fights for the rebels, is captured by the British and taken to a concentration camp. Finally, Ngugi himself comes into conflict with the forces of colonialism when he is victimised by a police officer on a bus journey and thrown in prison for six days. This fascinating memoir charts the development of a significant voice in international literature, as well as standing as a record of the struggles of a nation to free itself.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning.
As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war.

Neix un teixidor de somnis ?s el despertar d'un escriptor i ?s l'alliberament d'un poble. Mentre Ngũgĩ se'n va a estudiar a la Universitat de Makerere, Uganda, el seu poble es defensa de l'Imperi brit?nic. En aquells temps convulsos ?s quan neix un dels intel·lectuals m?s importants de la nostra ?poca, formant-se com a periodista, escriptor de contes, dramaturg i novel·lista. Perseguit pels records i les not?cies de la carnisseria i dels encarceraments en massa realitzats per l'estat colonial brit?nic a la seva Kenya natal, per? alhora inspirat en la lluita tit?nica contra aquestes injust?cies, Ngũgĩ comen?a a teixir hist?ries que recull de les fibres de la mem?ria, la hist?ria i un present vibrant i turbulent. ?s aix? com es comen?a a formar una identitat d'intel·lectual al servei del seu poble. En aquest text emocionant i provocatiu es despleguen simult?niament el naixement de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o com a escriptor combatiu, la fi del colonialisme militar en un dels episodis m?s violents de la hist?ria global i l'empoderament dels pobles africans per decidir el seu futur.