id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5250 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Wikipedia .html text/html 4150 544 74 His most recent books are Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012), and Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, a collection of essays published in 2009 making the argument for the crucial role of African languages in "the resurrection of African memory", about which Publishers Weekly said: "Ngugi's language is fresh; the questions he raises are profound, the argument he makes is clear: 'To starve or kill a language is to starve and kill a people's memory bank.'"[34] This was followed by two well received autobiographical works: Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir (2010)[35][36][37][38][39] and In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2012), which was described as "brilliant and essential" by the Los Angeles Times,[40] among other positive reviews.[41][42][43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5250.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5250.txt