Granta’s Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey interviewed author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at New Beacon Books about his childhood in rural Kenya and his piece in the new Granta – an extract of upcoming memoir Dreams in a Time of War.
Photograph © UCI UC Irvine
Granta’s Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey interviewed author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at New Beacon Books about his childhood in rural Kenya and his piece in the new Granta – an extract of upcoming memoir Dreams in a Time of War.
Photograph © UCI UC Irvine
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