On The Cover : Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Born James Thiong’o Ngugi to Thiong’o wa Nduucu and Wanjika wa Ngugi, Ngugi is the fifth child of the third of Thiong’o’s four wives. Ngugi was born on January 5, 1938, he is the East Africa’s leading novelist, whose popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, he adopted his traditional name.